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THE GREAT HOTELS 

OF THE 

EAST COAST 

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St. Augustine, Ormond ^ u 
Palm Beach, 

AND THE 

Famous Orange Qroves, 

Pineapple Plantations, etc., of the 
Country Tributary to 

INDIAN RIVER, LAKE WORTH 
And BI5CAYNE BAY, 

Are reached only via the 

Florida East Coast Railway. 

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, 
General Passenger Agent, 
1 St. Augustine. 



T0URI5TS' 



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SETTLERS' GUIDE 





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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 
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Knowest tliou the land where the lemon 
trees bloom, 
"Where the gold orange glows in the green 
thicket's gloom ; 
Where the winds ever soft from the blue 
heavens blow, 
Where the stately magnolia and dark myrtle 
grow; 
Where beams the fair sun, where the mock- 
ing birds sing. 
And all the year offers the blessings of spring. 



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PREFACE. 



No pretense is made that a "Guide to Florida" is a 
new or novel publication. There have been guides almost 
beyond number, guides issued by land companies and other 
corporations, which guided the traveler to certain sections 
and ignored all other portions of the State. Most com- 
mendable enterprise without doubt when viewed from the 
company's point of view, but worthless to the invalid or 
tourist who sought health or recreation in the one Florida. 

From the tourists' and settlers' stand-point no thorough, 
reliable work of the kind has ever been issued. There has 
ever existed a distinct want of such a publication, and this 
book is offered to supply this need. 

It is not designed to furnish rapturous descriptions 
of Florida, appropriate as they always are, and great as is 
the temptation whenever the subject is broached. The 
man who contemplates either visiting the State or becoming 
an inhabitant thereof, it is hoped will find his natural 
questions either answered beforehand, or himself guided to 
the proper parties for obtaining correct information. Facts 
and figures, dollars and cents, will abound. Expense of 
travel, cost^of living, and all practical questions are antici- 
pated and answered. 

The book will be issued annually hereafter, and it may 
safely be promised will become more and more valuable to 
both the traveler and the business man as the years go by. 

The fact that the author has often visited every portion 
of the State and repeatedly written up each section, and has 
her knowledge from personal observation and close inquiry, 
will, it is hoped, add value and interest to the book. 
Moreover, it is Horida up-to-date containing the latest 
statistics and situations. 



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PREFACE. 



The Hotel and Boarding House directory is perfectly 
reliable. The tourist may easily estimate his expenses by 
consulting the transportation tables and the directory. 

A limited number of advertisements, such as Real 
Estate Agencies, Liveries, Druggists, etc., which are of 
real value to the settler, investor, invalid and pleasure 
seeker, have been admitted. 

While many guide books are overloaded with all sorts 
of advertisements, the nice discrimination which will be 
practiced in the getting up of this book will be such that 
its great value will be its advertisements. 




HOW TO -RBAeH FLORIDA. 



BY RAIL. 

The shortest and most direct line from New York and 
the Atlantic cities is by the new Florida Short Line of the 
Southern Railway and Florida Central and Peninsular 
Railroad. This deviates but little from a straight line 
from New York to Tampa. The trip from New York to 
Jacksonville is accomplished in 28 hours. The route is 
often called the "Piedmont Air Line" because it skirts the 
foot of the Appalachian mountains and winds through 
unsurpassed scenery and much of the way through country 
every mile of which is historical. Fare from New York to 
Jacksonville ^29. 1 5 ; from Philadelphia ^26.65 ; from Wash- 
ington ^22.65. 

The Plant System. 

By its connections with the Pennsylvania R. R. and 
Atlantic Coast Line to Charleston, also makes a direct trip 
from New York to Tampa, where by close connection with 
its steamships the trip is continued without interruption to 
Key West, Cuba, and Jamaica. Fare from New York via 
Washington, Richmond, Weldon, Raleigh, Wilmington, 
Charleston, Savannah, Waycross to Jacksonville $2g.is; 
from Philadelphia $26.6^; from Washington ;^22.65. 

The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West 
"RailNvay. 

Has its connections to New York and the East by all 
the routes, but begins properly at Jacksonville and perme- 
ates all the central, eastern and western portions of the 
State. 

The East Coast and Keys. 

In the same way begins properly at Jacksonville, and 
is the only direct line to the East Coast, the wonderful 



8 TOURISTS AND SETTLERS GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 

Indian River country and the newly discovered marvels of 
Lake Worth and Biscayne Bay. 

The Florida Central and Peninsular 
"Railroad. 

By its connections with the Louisville & Nashville 
and Pacific & Atlantic affords entrance at the extreme 
western portion of the State at Pensacola and Flomaton, 
from all points west and southwest. Also, by its connection 
with the Southern Railway from western and northwestern 
points, entrance is afforded Florida at Everett, and thence to 
points east and south. By its association with the South- 
ern Railway it offers, as above stated, the shortest line to 
New York and other Eastern cities. The Plant System, in 
like manner, leads in from the west at Live Oak, thence east, 
or down the west coast direct. Fare from Denver $42.6$ ; 
from Detroit ^28.20; from Chicago $25.00; from Cincin- 
nati $20.90. 



BY WATER. 

The principal line of steamers from New York is the 
Clyde Line. This line keeps five large and elegantly ap- 
pointed steamers continually on the route between Jack- 
sonville and New York. They are the ' ' Seminole, " Iro- 
quois," "Cherokee," "Yemassee " and " Algonquin." One 
of these steamers leaves New York from Pier 29, East River, 
at 3 p. m., every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 

One of them leaves Jacksonville from the Clyde Dock, 
foot of Hogan street, every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. 
All call at Charleston, S. C, both ways. 

Fare, one way, $25.00; round trip. $43.30. 

This company has also two fast freight steamers, the 
''Delaware" and "Winyah," which sail from Jacksonville 
to Philadelphia direct, but call at Charleston, S. C, when 
south bound. 



^^^^^M TRAVEL VIA 

J. T & K. W. 



RAILWAY 
IN FLORIDA. 



A 

North 

and 

South 

Line 

Thro' 

the 



JACKSONVIIU^^^^ST 



Tampa-*"" 



Railway. 



JOSEPH H. OURKEE . RECEIVER. 



Heart of Florida. 



For 

Details 

Try 

It, 

or address any authorized representative. 



Through Coaches and Pullman Sleepers. 



W. B. COFFIN, G. D. ACKERLY, 

Gen'l Sup't. Gen'l Pass. Agt. 

Jacksonville, Florida. 



^HE g HORT LINE 

BETWEEN 

FLORIDA!!i^NORTH. 



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Florida Central ^ Peninsillar 

BETWEEN 

NEW YORK AND JACKSONVILLE, 

Connecting" also ^vitli St. Augustine. 

These trains run via Savannah, Columbia, Lynchbui'g, Washington, Balti- 
more and Philadelphia, connecting over same line for ASHlzyiZ,JjE, and 
the favorite resorts of .the Mountains of Virginia and the Carolinas. 



BETWEEN 

MACOIV, ATLANTA AND JACKSONVILLE, 

In connection with the Southern Railway— the only line etitvrinij th 

EXPOSITION oito rxns. 



Daily Betv^^een Cincinnati and Jacksonville. 

The Cincinnati and Florida Limited, a vestibuled train, making close con- 
nection with Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Louisville, and all points West. 



Daily between St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, all Arkansas and 
Missouri points, and Jacksonville. 



Only line between NEW ORLEANS and JACKSONVILLE with through 
Sleepers. Runs throufih the beautiful Middle Florida Hill Country— Pensa- 
cola and Escamliia Bay. 

All these trains connect with 8t. Augustine, the Indian River and St. 
Johns River points, direct for Ocala, Gainesville, Leesburg, Orlando, Winter 
Park, and all West Coast points— Hunting and Fishing Resorts. Send for 
list. |^~ Send for best Indexed Map of Florida. 

NORTHERN AGENCIES: 

J. L. Adams, General Eastern Agent, 353 Broadway, New York. 

W. B. Pennington, General Western Agent, 169 Walnut street, Cincinnati. 

E. D. Palmer, Agent, li»7 Washington street, Boston. 

Daniel Lammot, Southern Agent, 40 S. Third street, Philadelphia. 

John R. Duval, Agent, 205 E Baltimore street, Baltimore. 

H. F. Davis, Commercial Building, St. Louis. 

G. W. Carhart, Endicott Building, St. Paul, Minn. 

N. S. PENNINGTON, Traffic Manager. 

WALTER G. COLEMAN, A. 0. MacDONELL, 

(ten. Trav. Agt., Jacksonville, Fla. Gen. Pass. Agt., Jacksonville, Fla. 



12 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

The Mallory Steamship Line. 

The Mallory Steamship Line sails to New York and 
Boston, stopping at Philadelphia en roiite. Passengers from 
Jacksonville take the steamer train every Thursday at 7:30' 
a. m. on the Florida Central and Peninsular Railway at the 
Union Depot, and are carried to Fernandina. Here they 
are met by the Cumberland boat, which conveys them by 
the inland route to Brunswick, Ga., where they take the 
ocean steamer. Fare from Jacksonville to New York, first- 
class, $22.50 ; intermediate, $17.50; steerage, $12.50; round 
trip, 540.30. 

The Ocean Steamship Company. 

This company, known as the Savannah Line, carries 
passengers by rail from Jacksonville to Savannah, where 
they take the steamer for New York every Tuesday, Friday 
and Sunday, This line also runs a steamer from Savannah, 
to Boston every Thursday. 

Fare, $25.00 for first-class, one way; $19.00 for inter- 
mediate, one way, or $43.30 for round trip. 

The Merchants' and Miners' Transpor- 
tation Company. 

The Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Com- 
pany's steamers sail between Savannah and Baltimore. 
Passengers are conveyed to and from Jacksonville to Sa- 
vannah by rail. The steamers leave Savannah, north-bound,, 
every Wednesday aud Saturday. Fare between Baltimore 
and Jacksonville, $20.65 ; round trip, $36.30. 

The Clyde Line has, in winter, a St. Johns River ser- 
vice, when the two steamers, " Fred'k de Bary " and " City 
of Jacksonville " ply between Jacksonville and Sanford and 
all intervening points. Besides these, the " John Sylvester," 
one of the finest steamers on Florida waters, makes the same 
run. Smaller steamers, such as the " May Garner," make 
the run to Green Cove Springs and Palatka. 





01 

Southern Railway, 

The Greatest 
Southern System. 



5hort Line 

BETWEEN 

Florida and the East 

Via Savannah, 
Columbia, 
Charlotte, 
and Washington, 

Short Line to the North and West via Atlanta 



ONLY LINE 
To the Land of the Sky. 



Superior Through Car Service. 
Schedules Unequaled. 



W. D. ALLEN. F. P. A., Jacksonville, Fla. 

AV. A.TURK, G. P. A., S. H. HARDWICK, A. G. P. A. 

Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga. 



14 TOURISTS, AND SETTLERS' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 

"The Three Brothers" will run this winter from Jack- 
sonville to Nassau, N. P., in the Bahamas. 






FLORIDA 



The /Same. 

THE origin of this much discussed name is still an 
open queston of the writers on this subject, many of 
whom insist that the land was first seen on Palm Sun- 
day, or, as they erroneously say, " Pasciia Florida." The 
Spanish name for Palm Sunday is "' Domingo de tamos T The 
Hebrew term for the Passover is '' Pasc/ia" from \vhence 
we have the French ''Pasquc' and the Spanish ''Pascua,'' 
which the Saxon called Easter. In a book printed in 
London in 1763 is the following quaint passage: "It hath 
been already observed that this country (Florida) was first 
discovered in 1497 by John Cabot, a Venetian mariner in 
the service of Henry VII, King of England. It was more 
completely discovered in the year 15 12 by Juan Ponce de 
Leon, a Spaniard, who gave it the name of Florida because 
it was seen first in Easter, called Pasqiia dc /lores in the 
language of his country, or as Herreva alledges, because it 
was covered with flowers, and the most beautiful blossoms" 
Those who have seen the Easter season in Florida 
and the wealth of flowers which still commemorate and 
adorn its return, can well believe that both these reasons 
influenced the giving of its name. And as Easter Sunday 
revealed it to his view, behold the land was decked with 
flowers and the river freighted with the pure white lilies 
which were associated with the feast from days of old. No 
marvel that he exclaimed "Pascua de flores" — an Easter of 
flowers. Quoting again from the same authority, we find 
this grave assertion : 



16 TOUKISTS' AND SETTLERS' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 

"The air is pure and temperate and the country 
generally speaking exceedingly salubrious. Hence it 
is that the natives of Florida are supposed to derive 
that strength and robustness of constitution which dis- 
tinguishes them from the more southern Indians. The 
soil is rich and fertile, producing in great abundance all 
kinds of timber and fruit trees. There is no species of 
vegetable but may be raised with little trouble in Florida. 
As to cotton, it is so plentiful that most of the civilized in- 
habitants are clothed of a manufacture composed of that 
uselul natural production." This author then describes 
the flax, hemp, pearls, rubies, and gold ; the iron and 
coal, the "amber grease," and tar, the corn, pulse, roots 
and herbs, fruits and sassafras, the cassava and indigo, the 
grapes and prunes, the beef, veal and mutton, and states 
that horses were to be had for the value of a crown in 
European conmiodities. Then is described the settlement 
of St. Augustine, on the day devoted to that saint in 1565, 
its capture by Sir Francis Drake in 1586; its destruction 
in 1665, and the final cession of Florida to England, which, 
as the author observes, was "an acquisition of the utmost 
importance to our cotton manufactures." Again he says: 

"According to all accounts, the Floridians were in 
North America what the AtJicnians were in Greece ; and it 
is to be regretted that the original manners of them, and 
many other people in South America are now lost by the 
infection they have received from the Spaniards and the 
Europeans y 

It is interesting to know that the climate and salubrity, 
fertility and productions of Florida were thus justly esti- 
mated and understood at such an early date; and indeed, 
to these descriptions but little can now be added save in 
detail, and nothing needs to be changed, for the gold and 
precious stones which they found in the "Apalachian 
mountains" and the coal and iron of Alabama and Georeia. 




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TOUKISTS' AND SETTLERS' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 17 

which States then were within the boundaries of Florida, 
are enriching the country today. 

Of the further history of Florida a volume of intense 
interest could be written, but as the past is ever but a dream 
and the future but a hope, yet in this case a sure and cer- 
tain hope, it is the ever-living present, the bustling pro- 
gressive present, the beautiful and joyous present, which 
commands a more lively attention. 

The Second Discovery of Florida, 

May be said to have been made by the Federal troops 
during the Civil War. When they invaded the land, and 
found flowers blooming in the open air in January, century 
plants sending up flowering stalks 40 feet in height, and 
discovered that they could themselves plunge into the St. 
John's for a swimming contest in February, their rapturous 
accounts attracted attention. Their officers, who had never 
before seen a winter without ice, snow and frost could 
scarcely believe their own senses, and many of them, in 
after years, remembering its delights, came to its shores to 
seek permanent homes. 

While it is the oldest of the States, it is, at the same 
time a comparatively new State — not yet developed, indeed, 
not fully explored, but attracting for the past twenty years 
or more, the best class of citizens from all the older parts 
of the Union. The cultivation of the orange and other 
fruits which, under the old regime, was limited to door yard 
ornaments and home consumption, under the new impulse, 
became established industries, and with their successful 
growth the fame of the State received a new accession. The 
discovery within the past few years of valuable minerals 
beneath her unpromising looking sands, has completed the 
conquest of capital and enterprise which her climate and 

products had begun. 

Climate. 

The climate is a continuous marvel, for here two zones 

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18 TOURISTS' AND SETTLERS' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 

vie with each other, giving their best to this border land 
between them. The difference in the monthly mean 
temperature the year around is seldom more than 30°. 
Surgeon General Lawson, of the United States Army^ 
says in his official report about Florida: 

"As respects health, the climate of Florida stands pre- 
eminent. That the peninsular climate of Florida is much 
more salubrious than that of any other State in the Union 
is clearly established by the medical statistics of the army. 
Indeed, the statistics in this bureau demonstrate the fact 
that the diseases which result from malaria are of a much 
milder type in the peninsula of Florida than in any other 
State in the Union. These records show that the ratio of 
deaths to the number of cases of remittent fever has been 
much less than among the troops serving in any other 
portion of the United States. In the middle division of 
the United States the proportion is one death to thirty-six 
cases of remittent fever; in the Northern division one to 
fifty-two ; in the Southern division one to fifty-four, in 
Texas, one to seventy-eight ; in California, one to one 
hundred and forty-eight; while in Florida it is but one to 
tci'o Juindred and cighiy-seven. In short, it may be asserted, 
without fear of refutation, that Florida possesses a much 
more agreeable and salubrious climate than any other State 
or Territory in the Union." 

Possibly one secret of the fascinations which Florida 
wields over all who tarry long in her border, is the great 
variety of her productions. Omitting an enumeration of 
the brilliant sisterhood of flowers that border her lakes, 
almost choke her rivers, and gleam in her bosky dells and 
shady swamps, we give a brief mention of those products 
which offer to her settlers, home-seekers, and established 
residents, the means of winning bread and butter, and sur- 
rounding themselves and their families with all the comforts 
of life. 

The mere mention of the word Florida, suggests the 
other word 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 19 

Oranges. 

Now is approached a subject which about 69 miUions 
of people in the United States believe to be a dead issue. 

It is well that the right shall prevail and the truth be 
known. The world of late years has heard never a word 
of Florida unless associated with orange groves, and for a 
few months past of nothing but frost and dead trees and 
destroyed prosperity. 

Now the fact is that people who live in Florida a 
number of years grow very peculiar in one or two partic- 
ulars. The first is, that they are so accustomed to a state 
of health that when they hear of the many epidemics of 
diptheria and scarlet fever and pneumonia, and summer 
complaint, and meningitis which in many northern sections 
are annual visitants, they scarcely comprehend the dire 
calamities. Another is that Floridians by adoption or 
otherwise are only habituated to nature in its Florida 
aspect, and when a little of the cold from the Western 
plains escapes or flow^s over upon them by mistake, or 
through malice and envy, they are absolutely dismayed. 
Now if they were accustomed to have wheat and oats and 
spring crops frozen down nearly every year, or washed 
away by flood or drowned out by superfluous rainfall, or 
their peach orchards frozen down every year or two, or all 
the peach crop frequently destroyed as it is in New Jersey 
and Delaware, or rivers flowing through the streets and 
into the cellars every spring, while the inhabitants move 
out for a few days to contemplate the watery waste, or 
were familiar with the Kansas potato bug or the numerous 
western grasshoppers and other things which are every day 
matters in the north and west they would have not been so 
astonished as they were by last winter's cold snaps. As a 
matter of fact many orange growers planted other crops at 
once after the freeze and have made more profits than they 
would have realized from their oranges. As the soil in 
the groves was well fertilized and cultivated the change of 



20 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

crop was advantageous to its productiveness. To the joy 
of the owner the orange trees also began to grow from the 
root, and from every part of the State the reports come that 
the groves are doing well. Next year when the fruit 
comes into market, Florida oranges will show up very 
imu'h alive and the tourist will see what a mistake he has 
made not to buy a grove while the depression lasted. The 
State has not, of course, recovered from the blow to its 
prosperity, but the state of mind has changed, and every 
one is assured that it is not a greater misfortune than 
sometimes happens anywhere and everywhere. 
Pineapples. 
So wide spreading and severe was the freeze of 
Feb. '95, that the pineapples in the extreme southern por- 
tions of the State, were frozen so that the fruitage of '95 did 
not appear. Only those groves under so-called shelters, 
■or open lattice work were spared. But so recuperative and 
forceful is this wonderful climate, that now, in the early 
autumn and winter of '95, a traveler riding along the south- 
eastern portion of the peninsula passes through eighteen 
miles of an almost unbroken stretch of pineapple fields 
which will all afford fruitage in May and June of '96. Im- 
mense fields of the spiny plants stretch away on either side 
of the track as far as the eye can reach, seeming like the 
great corn fields of the west or the cotton plantations of the 
south. They have all been set out since the freeze of Feb- 
ruary last, but as they take but two years to perfect fruit, 
the world need not long be deprived of this luxury. 

Tobacco. 

About the year 1565, Sir John Hawkins carried to- 
bacco to England, and it is interesting to note what an 
important factor tobacco has been in the commerce of the 
world. Though an article of luxury, it was in the early 
history of Florida looked upon as a convenient medium of 
exchange. In 1620, while there was an abundance of to- 
bacco in the colonies, there was a great scarcity of females. 



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tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 21 

An enterprising trader brought ninety young women from 
England to America and exchanged to the planter 120 
weight of female for 150 pounds of tobacco. King James 
issued a proclamation restricting this unlawful and ob- 
noxious traffic. In 1570 Florida tobacco was first taken to 
Holland, and not until 1616 did the colonists of Virginia 
begin the planting of tobacco, the seed being obtained from 
what was then known as the Spanish Possessions — Florida. 

Florida tobacco was a favorite article with an extensive 
foreign and domestic trade many years ago — in ante bclbun 
times. What was grown then commanded a high price, 
frequently as much as a dollar a pound. But at the close 
of the war, shifting labor and the alluring price of cotton, 
caused a decline of the industry in those sections where it 
had most flourished. About six years ago experiments 
beg-an to be made in the State, and the results have been 
magical. All tests gave iavorable indications ; experts 
were delighted; manufacturers became interested; capital 
was enlisted, and now there is a clamor for Florida tobacco ; 
the industry is again taking on considerable proportions 
and bids fair, in a short time, to outstrip any other in the 
State, and to carry the country by storm with its aromatic 
product. 

Those of our farmers who have followed up this in- 
dustry have gained an experience in the cultivation and 
handling of tobacco, which yields them a constantly increas- 
ing profit. Eight to nine months in the year are afforded 
for the growing and housing of the different crops — and 
two at least should be cut from the same planting ; worms 
are not so troublesome as in other sections; there is no 
danger of injury from hail or frost ; expensive barns are not 
required for curing ; no heating, or drying, or moistening 
apparatus, the climate being peculiarly favorable to perfect 
curing by natural process, as also to handling and manip- 
ulating throughout — from the field to the factory. Florida 
tobacco is now largely used in some of the first factories 



22 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

of New York to take the place of the more expensive 
Sumatran and Cuban articles, to the latter of which it is 
equal in quality both as filler and wrapper, and to the 
former as wrapper alone — facts repeatedly proven, and 
everywhere acknowledged and sustained, and the demand 
now far outstrips the supply. The climate of Florida is so 
favorable to the cultivation of tobacco, that, aside from the 
first or original crop, two sucker crops can be raised. This 
is accomplished by cutting the stock off near the ground 
and leaving a sucker or shoot on the root, which will in a 
short time grow into a healthy, well developed stock, on 
which the leaves will be lighter in weight, but larger and 
finer than the first crop. This, we believe, is an advantage 
enjoyed in no other tobacco-producing State in this country, 
as late springs and early frosts in the fall render a second 
or third crop in other sections an impossibility. 

Florida's total production of tobacco last season was 
over a million pounds, on less than two thousand acres ; 
value of crop to producers, $300,000. 

To the tobacco growers of Florida, the present dis- 
turbed conditions in Cuba, means a harvest of shekels. 
The war-cloud has intercepted both the growth and the ship- 
ment of tobacco from the Queen of the Antilles. The to- 
tobacco growers of Gadsden county in this State are surprised 
by offers of 35 cents per pound for tobacco that formerly 
brought but 12^^ to 15 cents per pound. Mr. Saxon of 
Tallahassee began this year the experiment of raising chew- 
ing tobacco, and his elated manner and smiling face as he 
gets his returns from shipments prove that he chose the 
golden moment in which to try his luck. 

Timber. 

Here also meet and intermingle the products of two 
zones. The hickory, pine, cedar and maple of the far 
north grow in loving brotherhood beside the stately and 
magnificent magnolia, the tropical palmetto and the fragrant 
myrtle; while the holly decks itself with its red berries 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 23 

near to the white-beaded mystic mistletoe. Two hundred 
varieties of timber (more than any other State can offer) 
invite the manufacturer. Herds of cattle roaming at will 
and feeding the year around on the wild cane and luxuriant 
grasses of the wide savannas of its south-central portion; 
the thick-skinned manatee and the tough-skinned alligator, 
with the palmetto, richer in tannic acid than any other sub- 
stance, everywhere in superabundance, offer a combination 
of inducements to the manufacturer of leather which no 
other land can equal. 

Sugar. 

As a sugar producer Florida ranks first. Her climate 
enables the planter to gather his crop for from seven to 
fifteen years without replanting, and thus she ranks with 
Cuba and the Sandwich Islands. 

In the southern portion of the State an extensive 
drainage system has lowered the water in the great lakes 
from 10 to 20 feet. This has rendered useful millions of 
acres upon which sugar cane will return the first year in 
green cane the whole cost of the land, planting and culti- 
vation. If the planter also refines his product the profit 
will be marvelously increased. The next year the crop 
will be almost entirely profit, no replanting being necessary, 
and the cultivation being less than ;^ 10.00 per acre. This 
is an unfailing crop and the season of gathering lasts nearly 
all winter with no risk of frost which is the bane of the 
Louisiana planter, and every year comes too soon for his 
interests. 

This valuable crop is universally grown by the farmers 
throughout the State, and its products are staple luxuries 
on their tables and in the local markets the year round, 
while a good deal is also exported. New Florida syrup 
has no competitor, and nothing to compare with it aside 
from the new crop maple, to which it is fully equal in the 
estimation of many. No other crop enters so fully into 
the domestic and social life of the planter. Our "cane- 



24 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

grindings" and "sugar-boilings" in the late fall and early- 
winter are favorite evening gatherings for the young, of 
town and country, very like the New England "maple- 
parties." They make a not unpleasant picture about 
the kettles and furnaces at night. Cane needs a rich, and 
prefers a moist soil, but will grow on any but the poorest 
and driest. The yield is largely increased by liberally 
fertilizing, or by "cow-penning" the ground beforehand, 
when it will produce on any of our better grade pine lands 
as well as the hammocks. According to soil and season, 
the yield may be as low as eight or ten, or run as high as 
eighteen or twenty barrels of syrup per acre. The general 
average may be placed at from twelve to fifteen. The 
yield in crude sugar would be about two hundred pounds 
to the barrel, worth about five cents per pound in the local 
market ; the syrup, forty to fifty cents per gallon — about 
thirty-five gallons to the barrel. The profit per acre, one 
year with another, may safely be put down at $ioo and 
upwards. The "green" and "ribbon" canes are mostly grown. 
A great deal is sold in the stalk and consumed in the local 
markets, and at home, for "chewing," and it is surprising 
how much disappears in this way. This offers a most 
profitable manner of disposal to the grower, as it brings 
from two and a half to five cents a stalk. 

This is one of our "coming industries," and Florida is 
destined to be a great sugar-producing State. 

"Rice. 

Rice is a profitable crop, and considerable is produced, 
equal in quality to the best, and mostly exported. It is 
generally grown upon land too wet for anything else, but 
upland rice is as easily produced. It is planted from March 
to June, and harvested from late summer to early fall. Two 
crops are sometimes taken from the same stubbles. The 
average yield is from twenty to sixty bushels, and has been 
known to reach 200 per acre. It is worth from 75 cents to 




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tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 25 

$i.2c, per bushel in the rough. Stock of all kinds relish 

the straw. 

Cotton. 

Florida's claim to distinction as a cotton State is 
founded on her production of sea-island, or long staple, 
black seeded cotton. Florida produces one-third of all this 
staple grown in the United States, and one-sixth of the 
world's supply, Egypt alone appearing in the light of a 
rival. Florida cotton is the standard for the article in 
the great markets of the world. It grows on all Flor- 
ida lands, and the yield is greatly increased by properly 
fertilizing. The average yield without this is from 300 to 
500 pounds of seed cotton per acre, though some planters 
obtain as much as 600 to 1,000, with its use. It yields a 
pound of lint, or ginned cotton, to about three and a half 
of the seed. 

The other products are cotton seed meal, cake and oil, 
the former a splendid fertilizer (as are also the hulls and ashes) 
and stock and cattle food. The oil is now a staple article in 
the markets and industries of the world, appearing under 
the guise of lard, olive oil, etc., for cooking, table use, and 
the canning of sardines. The seed is worth $12.50 per 
ton, and yields in products more than twice that amount, 
the stalks are said to yield a fibre almost equal to jute. 
The upland, or short staple, though produced easily and 
abundantly here, is almost entirely neglected for the supe- 
rior article. 

Of the sea- island cotton, almost the entire output is 
handled by the firm of H. F. Button & Co., of Gainesville, 
Fla., Providence. R. I., and Alexandria, Egypt. 

The great Paisley firm of Scotland uses Florida sea- 
island cotton exclusively for the manufacture of the cele- 
brated Coates' spool thread. Mr. John L. Inglis, of Madi- 
son, is their principal inspector, selector and buyer. 

The equally well known Clarke firm of Lanark, Scot- 
land, manufacturers of the O. N. T. spool cotton, procure 
all their supplies from Florida. 



26 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

Phosphate. 

Phosphate is in vegetable growth especially of fruit 
and food-producing plants one of the most easily exhausted 
elenients of the soil and is but second in importance. For 
many years the farmer of the United States has been edu- 
cated to believe that he must get from South America the 
guano which his farm needs, and when he hears that Nature 
has bestowed this necessary element in great abundance 
within the limits of his own country, the fact is too wonder- 
ful to be immediately accepted. Its discovery marks an 
epoch in the history of geological science in America, 
as it reverses theories, and what was regarded as geologi- 
cally young, it demonstrates to be really geologically old. 
Since Florida contains the oldest city in the sisterhood of 
States, it is but poetic justice and singularly appropriate 
that it should also have a more ancient foundation. This 
formation lies so near the surface in Florida that it is easily 
mined and the cost of placing it upon the market is less 
that in any other known region. Spain and Canada have 
ores of richer grade but impassable mountains guard the 
one, and an inhospitable climate the other. These coun- 
tries for these reasons cannot compete in the markets of 
the world with Florida's phosphate. The story of its dis- 
covery is like that of many other valuable gifts of the earth 
to man, almost an accident. Yet when man becomes 
conscious of a need Nature seems ever ready at the auspicious 
moment to reveal to him her treasures for his use, and to 
teach him to bind new powers to his service when his ad- 
vancement demands. At the present time Florida nearly 
equals the output of South Carolina whose mines have been 
famous for over a century. 

As to the profit of the industry it is sufficient to state 
that it is more than double the percentages realized in 
South Carolina, which have long enriched alike the State 
and the private investors. This is owing to the natural 
conditions which render the cost so much less to the Flor- 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 27 

ida miner while the material is from lo to 20 per cent su- 
perior in quality. 

Other minerals of economic value which are also found 
in quantity are kaolin, pure ochres of several shades from 
orange yellow to brilliant red, native cement and moss 
agate, potash and chloride of silver and Fuller's earth. Flor- 
ida abounds in mineral springs and many of them contain 
iron, so it is among the possibilities that iron is also here. 

Florida at Atlanta. 

Florida is to be well represented at the Atlanta Ex- 
position. For her great antiquity, the bones of the mam- 
moth and tiger side by side will testify. Manatees and 
tarpon will illustrate the wondrous life of her waters. 
Phosphate, both rock and pebble, will be there in quantity 
and, with kaolin, will demonstrate her wealth of minerals, 
which no gold mines can rival in value. Corn, oats, barley 
and rye will show by the side of sugar cane, cotton and rice 
that she truly is able to yield the products of two zones. 
Cocoanuts and dates, figs and quinces, guavas and grapes, 
peaches and plums, pears and pineapples, tea and tobacco, 
citrons and shaddocks, limes and lemons, oranges and 
olives, cassava and celery, indigo and sisal hemp, ramie 
and alfalfa and every known vegetable will demonstrate the 
fertility of her soil and versatility of her products, while a 
90fb watermelon will be there to show the Georgians what 
a real watermelon is. "Lives there a man with soul so 
dead" as not to be interested in that? 

To the Tourist. 

To see the orange groves, or what King Frost has 
left of them, visit the central, eastern, or western portions 
of the peninsula. There are no groves in northwestern 
Florida, in what might be called the pan-handle, or the toe 
of the inverted boot. Neither are there very extensive 
groves through the northern tier of counties. The groves 
down the west coast are of more recent growth, and while 



28 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

fine, are perhaps not so extensive or remarkable to see, as 
those along the upper St. Johns, particularly about Sanford, 
and DeLand — which nestles among them ; and those on 
the Indian River — where one may walk through sixteen 
miles of continuous orange grove ; and about what is 
known as the Lake Country. This region is seen in cross- 
ing the peninsula from Titusville to Tampa, by the 
J., T. & K. W. which passes through Leesburg, Apopka, 
Tavares and other towns, and skirts beautiful fresh water 
lakes, or by the Plant System, or by the South Florida R. R.. 
all of which cross the State much of the way. On the East 
Coast orange culture has never flourished south of Sebas- 
tian. On the West Coast south of Tampa, particularly 
about Fort Myers, there are groves now loaded with fruit 
which did not drop their leaves from the freeze of '94-5. 
The rest of the orange region presents a sight, fair or sad 
to see, according to the amount of the gazer's hopefulness. 
The bark of the orange, when dry and dead, is pale gray in 
tint. Where they have been left untouched, the sight of the 
rows upon rows of almost silvery looking round-topped 
leafless trees, is very sad and most peculiar. They look 
like ghosts of groves. But, within the past few months 
they have taken on quite another aspect, somewhat that of 
resurrecting groves. All around the bases, and reaching 
up the trunks, pushing their way up through the central 
portions of the tree, are strong vigorous shoots, many of 
them 18 and 20 feet in length. They look now like im- 
mense green vases in which have been arranged light 
grasses. The interregnum of a year, or possibly two, will 
but whet the world's appetite for the Florida orange, and 
there will be plenty with which to satisfy. 

The Pineapple Plantations. 

For these in perfection follow the East Coast from 
Sebastian southward to Palm Beach. It is almost one con- 
tinuous field for miles. For these take the East Coa.st 
Line. 




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tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 29 

The Cocoanut Groves 

Are found still farther south, on Lake Worth, and 
Biscayne Bay. Both pineapples and cocoanuts are found 
still farther south if one cares to visit the Keys or low l}'ing 
coral islets skirting the southern coast of the peninsula. 
Key Largo and its products enjoy a world-wide fame. Take 
the same East Coast Line. 

The Phosphate Mines. 

The center of the phosphate region is Ocala. From 
this point the seeker can scarcely go astray. For the 
pebble or river phosphate he must go to the Peace River 
country, where Arcadia is the most accessible point, while 
Bartow and Brooksville claim rich deposits of bone phos- 
phate. The geologist as well as the investor will find 
intense interest in all the western half of peninsular Florida. 
All this country is penetrated by the J., T. & K. W., and by 
the F. C. & P. R'y, and the Plant System. 

The Sugar Plantations. 

The sugar patch is seen waving its pale green foliage 
near every negro cabin and settler's home in the land, but 
the large plantations are the work ol the Disston company 
at Kissimmee, where are grown stalks 30 feet long on lands 
reclaimed by drainage from the outer edges of the Ever- 
glades and the Okeechobee country. This is on the P'lor- 
ida Southern Road, a part of the Plant System. 

The Tobacco Farms. 

For these the traveller must take the F. C. & P. road, 
the only railway penetrating the western and northern por- 
tion of the State, to Quincy. Here is situated the great 
Owl Cigar Co.'s factory, besides several smaller factories. 
Tallahassee, also, has a large and flourishing factory, all 
supplied by the tobacco grown in Gadsden Co., in and 
around Quincy. Ybor City near Tampa is a city of 6,000 
inhabitants made up entirely of tobacco factories and their 



30 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

employes, imported Cubans, and skilled laborers. For 
particulars see chapter on Tampa. 

The Pear Orchards. 

From fifty miles west of Jacksonville to the Alabama 
boundary the traveller sees no orange groves, but he sees 
acres upon acres of orchards, that have felt no drawback 
from the freeze. They are the LeConte and Kieffer pear 
orchards. The frost seemed to start them into new life. 
The present year they were overburdened with fruit. So 
abundant was the crop that thousands of bushels were left 
on the ground, to perish, or were fed to stock. The prices 
received did not pay the expense of shipping. 

The Vegetable Farms. 

For a model one may go to the home of Mr. U. J. 
White at Hastings, on the branch of the J., T. & K. W. con- 
necting St. Augustine and Palatka. Or, leave the train at 
Lavvtey, Starke, or almost any other town particularly in 
middle and western Florida, and strike out into the country 
in any direction. 

Grapes. 

For vineyards explore the region about Tallahassee, or 
visit Moultrie four miles from St. Augustine. Surprises 
await he who ventures. 




SOME POINTERS 

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Jacksonville, Florida. 

(By CHARLES H, SMITH, Secretary ot the Board of Trade.) 

Its Advantages for Profitable Investment Are, 

ITS I.OCATION:— 

At the head of ocean steam navigation on the St. Johns River, afford- 
ing 1,000 miles of inland communication, 

POPULATION 30,000— 

Growing steadllj^ ; 10,000 increase in last five years. 

ENTEKPKISES- 

Has Trolly cars. Gamewell fire alarm and paid fire department ; Electric 
lights, pure Artesian water, well-paved streets, good sewerage, fine pub- 
lic buildings, numerous churches and schools, public library, good bank- 
ing facilities, six lines of steamers, eight railroad systems. 
Business of $.50,000,000 per annum. 
Health excellent, mortality being but 10 in 1000. 

FACTORIES— 

Over 100 alreadj' in operation, but there is ample room for more. There 
is money to be made in the following, viz : 

Canning Factories for the surplus vegetables, fruits, oysters, shrimp 
and fish. Potteries for the finest Kaolin in the world, of which the 
supply is inexhaustable. At the Atlanta Exposition will be shown 11.5 
pieces of the finest egg-shell China, also specimens of ornamental tiling 
of this material. Tanneries to utilize the abundant saw palmetto which 
contains 11 to 12 per cent tannic acid, the leather tanned with which is as 
bright, durable, and gains as much as with oak or hemlock. The vast 
herds of native cattle in South Florida furnish the hides. The refuse of 
palmetto is 800 pounds per ton, and is valuable for paper stock, plastering 
hair, upholstering, cordage and cotton bagging. 

WOOD-WORKING FACTORIES — 

There are over 200 varieties of trees in Florida, of which but few have 
been utilized but pine and cypress. These woods are valuable for 
manufacturing into dooi's, sash and blinds, interior finish, cabinet work 
and furniture, cooperage, boat-building, wagons and carriages, agricul- 
tural implements, woodenware, baskets, cigar boxes, etc. 

SOAP FACTORIES— 

Materials for which are cheap and plentiful, viz: Tallow, cotton seed 
oil, etc 

CIGARx— 

For the manufacture of which Jacksonville possesses superior advan 
tages. 
NAVAL STORE UEPOT- 

Live men with capital can find no better location to control the turpen- 
tine and rosin now being produced extensively in the Florida pineries. 

With cheap labor a mild climate, ample transportation and plenty of 
raw materials, capital and brains only are essential to gain wealth. 

For fuller particulars, address the Secretary of the Board of Trade. 






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The original name of this spot was Cow-ford. It was 
so known" sixty years ago, at which time it was the ferry- 
point between the north and the south side of the St. John's 
river, by which the travel passed through the Spanish ter- 
ritory to that of the United States. While it was the ferry, 
it was also the point at which large numbers of cattle from 
South Florida, on the east side of the St. John's were made 
to swim or ford over, (if swimming fnay for convenience be 
called fording) under the guidance of the skilled boatmen, 
who led the van of the herd, encouraging it as a sort of 
nautical bell-wether, and sometimes holding the horn of a 
timid bovine, to a safe footing on the other side. 

The Indian name for Cow-ford was Waccasasa, from 
the Spanish vaca, a cow. The Indian name for St. John's 
was Ouithlocko, corrupted by the white man's pronuncia- 
tion to Withlaca, and finally by giving the Spanish sound 
of sharp e to the vowel /, it became Welaka. The Spanish 
name was San Juan ; English, St. John. 

Jacksonville, until the year 1816, never had a human 
habitation. In September of that year, the Spanish govern- 
ment made a grant of 200 acres of land lying north and 
east of McCoy's creek to Maria Taylor, widow of Purnal 
Taylor. She soon after married Lewis Z. Hogans, and 
removing to the north side of the river, cleared a place in 
the wilderness and built a home, opposite the present 
Everett Hotel. 

Shortly after John Masters joined them as a neighbor. 

John Brady became the third settler. Messrs. Daw- 
son and Buckles built the first store. Mr. I. D. Hart kept 
the first boarding house, running it successfully for twenty 



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In Jacksonville and Suburbs. 



Also, Liarge and Small Tracts 

Orange Groves and Wild Lands 

In nearly all the Counties East of the Su«iannec Rivef. 



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Terms and Prices to Suit the Times. 



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Family Trade throughout the State. 



34 tourists' and settlers' (JUIDE to FLORIDA. 

years. John L. Doggett was the first judge of the county- 
court. 

The town was laid out in 1822 by Messrs. Hogans^ 
Brady & Hart. The streets were made seventy feet wide. 
Bay St. was made eighty feet wide. It was given the name 
Jacksonville by Col. Warren, an enthusiastic admirer of Old 
Hickory. 

The first county court was held in 1822, with George 
Gibbs, clerk ; James Dell, sheriff, and D. C. Hart, deputy. 

The first United States Court was held in Dec. 1823, 
with Hon. J. L. Smith, father of Gen. Kirby Smith, as 
judge. In 1835 was published the first newspaper, The 
Courier. 

In 1850 it had 400 inhabitants; in i860, it had 2,000; 
in 1894, its population was 28,000. 

In 1858, under the direction of Gen. W. M. Ledwith, 
and Dr. A. S. Baldwin, an old negro, April Sauriz, planted 
the live-oak and water-oak trees that now line the streets 
in the older portions of Jacksonville. 

The Jacksonville of to-day is a busy, thriving, hustling 
metropolis of a rapidly growing State. It occupies eight 
and a half square miles. It is the largest city in the State. 
Its population is nearly 30,000. It is the terminus of six 
railways, and two others are projected. Four ocean 
steamer lines afford regular and direct communication with 
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It is the gateway 
to Florida, the Bahamas and Cuba. It is located on the 
noble St. Johns river, which, with its tributaries, gives 
1,000 miles of inland navigation. The city has nine miles 
of river frontage. The United States Government has ex- 
pended over $1,000,000 in constructing jetties at the mouth 
of the river, and the County of Duval has expended $300,- 
000 in deepening the channel, so that now there is eighteen 
feet of water from Jacksonville to the Ocean. The govern- 
ment is now making surveys with a view of obtaining a 
channel twenty-four feet deep. 

Being only fourteen miles from the Atlantic and one 



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arrangements are excellent, the plumbing- being thorough and systematic and 
drainage perfect. The Hotel is newly furnished with e.xceptionally fine fur- 
niture thi-oughout, and is, without doubt, the best hotel in the city. The 
rooms are arranged either singly or in suites, and as many bedrooms as de- 
sired. The house having and eastern and southern exposure, the rooms are 
light, airy and cheerful. Open fire places in nearly every room in the house. 

The cuisine is all that could be desired, our cooks are the best that can be 
'Obtained ; every possible attention will be given to the dining-room, and 
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36 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

hundred miles from the Gulf of Mexico, the city is always 
cooled by ocean or gulf breezes, so that even in summer 
Jacksonville is a comfortable place in which to live. It is 
only thirty minutes by rail from one of the finest ocean 
beaches'in the United States. 

It is the commercial emporium and business metrop- 
olis of Florida. There are ten banks. 

The wholesale and retail houses carry heavy stocks of 
goods, in their respective lines, hence they are enabled to 
compete successfully with their northern rivals whose 
drummers are continually canvassing the State. By their 
energy and wise liberality they have built up a trade of 
over forty millions per annum. 

The size and general fine appearance of the stores and 
shops on Bay street are a matter of surprise and gratifica" 
tion to all visitors. To visit some of the china and queens- 
ware stores, with their carefully selected, artistic wares, is 
like strolling through an art gallery. 

The establishment of Messrs. Greenleaf & Crosby is 
rapidly acquiring a national reputation. It is the Tiffany's 
of the Southeast. Although their most extensive trade is 
in jewelry and diamonds, their stock of bric-a-brac, cut-glass 
ware and fine art goods generally, is perhaps unequaled 
south of New York. A member of this firm visits Europe 
every year, and their goods are selected in the art centers 
of the world. Many of their designs in jewelry and silver- 
ware are original and characteristic, and have attained im- 
mediate and surprising popularity. 

They have branch houses at St. Augustine and Palm' 
Beach. 

Jacksonville's commerce is shown by the fact that in 
1894 the average tonnage was 1,060 and sailing vessels of 
450 tons or more are common visitors to her wharves. 
Since the deepening of the river channel to fifteen feet, 
mean low water, by the expenditure of $300,000, vessels 
drawing sixteen feet and eight inches can come and go 
with .safety. 



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The First Established and Always the Leading Daily in tlie State. 
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Terms, $10.00 a Year; $5.00 Six Months: $2.50 Three Months. 

It has the exclusive Southern Associated and United Press Franchises. Re- 
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has correspondents in all the leading news 
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The Evening Times-Union, 

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The Semi-Weekly Times-Union, 

(Semi-Weekly edition of the Daily Times-Union.) 

Issued every Tuesday and Friday; containing all the news. State and general, 
and a great variety of interesting reading, including farm and 
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38 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

Jacksonville has over lOO factories of various kinds, 
employing an aggregate capital of a million and one-half of 
dollars. There is room still for the profitable employment 
of more capital in Jacksonville. The abundant raw pal- 
metto contains more tannic acid than any known tree or 
plant except the oak. Careful analysis shows eleven to 
twelve per cent. Herds of native cattle abound in South 
Florida, the hides from which are shipped to the North 
and the leather returned to Florida. A tannery would pay. 
The refuse is worth more than the green raw material. 
There are 800 pounds of fibre to the ton, which can be util- 
ized for paper stock, plastering hair, bedding and up- 
holstering material, cordage, oakum, felt, or in lieu of jute 
for cotton bagging. Soap factories can find abundant 
material and a good market. Money can be made from 
the canning of vegetables, fruits, oysters and shrimp. Lime 
can be made from shell and rock. The lumber that has 
thus far been manufactured is chiefly from pine and cypress, 
but there are over 200 species of wood that ha\^e scarcely 
been touched. Cotton mills located here would be in close 
proximity to the cotton fields of Florida, Georgia and Ala- 
bama. 

Its mortality averages only ten in a thousand, the 
lowest in the United States. Artesian wells supply the 
city with 5,000,000 gallons daily of pure water. 

An efficient paid fire department is its safeguard 
against extensive conflagrations ; and it has a well organ- 
ized police department. 

Its numerous fine hotels afford ample accommodation 
to thousands of tourists. 

Its forty-eight churches; its numerous public and 
private schools ; its kindergarten ; its public free library ; 
its four daily and ten weekly newspapers ; its two luxurious 
clubhouses; its numerous lodges; its excellent markets, 
and its fine opera house enables the average citizen to ex- 
tract as much comfort from life as in greater and more pre- 
tentious cities. 



The C. C. Robertson 

Real Estate Agency, 



N. E, Cor. Bay and Main Sts., 

Over L'Engle's Drug Store, 



Telephone 1S4. 



Jacksonville, Florida. 



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Improved or Unimproved Property for Sale or Exchange. 

Money Lending a Specialty. 



Several large tracts of Timber and 
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Lands, both improved and unim- 
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Parties having large interests in 
other States, desiring to exchange 
same for Florida property, should 
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Jacksonville, Fla. 

■Hgents Ha»a» & Son, fieca Yopk. 




40 TOURISTS, AND SETTLERS' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 

Among its public buildings are a fine U. S. Custom 
House and Postoffice which cost nearly ;^300,ooo. The 
Duval County Court House cost $100,000. The Union 
building erected by the Board of Trade. City Library, 
and B. and P. Order of Elks. The Seminole Club build- 
ing, the Masonic Temple and the Odd Fellows Hall. 

The railroads centering here have a capacious union 
depot. Twelve miles of electric railway have been built, 
and a magificent railroad bridge spans the St. Johns River. 
Hundreds of private dwellings have been and are now be- 
ing erected and a new era of prosperity has dawned upon 
the city. 

Florida is now attracting thousands of emigrants to 
whom a few words of advice from the Board of Trade may 
be apropos. 

To The Settler. 

WBO SSOUI.D Don't go empty handed. A little capi- 

AND WHO |.^| jg -^ ^g necessary to get a start 

SHOULD NOT •* . / i= 

SETTLE IN ij'i Florida as anywhere else. 

FLORIDA. Don't go if you are doing well where 
you are. Florida is no place for discontented folks. 

Don't go expecting to find a country where you can 
live with little or no work, unless you have an income that 
will support you. 

Don't go if you are out of a job and can't get one at 
home. If you can't find employment where you are known 
you will not be likely to find it among strangers. 

Don't go if you are a semi-invalid hoping to earn 
enough to pay expenses during the winter and then return 
to the North in the spring. Florida is full of such deluded 
unfortunates. 

Don't go if you are merely the "promoter" of a "splen- 
did business scheme" with the expectation of finding cap- 
italists ready to put up the cash against your "experience'* 
and pay you a fat salary as manager of a company. 



JOHN L. MARVIN, H. T. BAYA, T. W. CONRAD, 

President. Cashier. Assistant Cashier, 

Merchants National Bank 

OF JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 




Capital, $100,000.01 



SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS 
$20,000.00. 

Fire and Burglar-Proof Vaults. 



Safety deposit boxes to rent. 



The accounts of individuals and mer- 
cantile firms, as well as those of bunks 
and bankers, are solicited, and will re- 
ceive every attention consistent with 
consei"vative management. 



The Florida Eitizen, 

An Eight=Page Daily Newspaper, Devoted to the 
Interests of the State of Florida. 

Pulolished Every Day in the Vear, 

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 



One jear. bj' mail 

Six months, by mail — 
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$8;oo 

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^^ Delivered by carrier within the limits of the city of Jacksonville for 
eight cents a month additional. 



Weekly Florida Citizen, 

PUBLISHED EVEBY THUBSDAY. 

Subscription rate, by mail One Dollar per Year, 

^"All subscriptions are payable In advance. 

315 West Bay Street, = = JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



42 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

Go if you have capital to lend or invest in any legit- 
imate manufacturing enterprise. 

Go if you are plucky and energetic, and know how to 
embrace an opportunity when you see it. 

Go if you like a mild climate better than a cold one — 
a good "all the year round" climate. 

Go if you are a horticulturist, vine grower, truck gar- 
dener or a good mechanic. 

Go if you are willing to assist in developing the won- 
derful resources of the State and become a permanent cit- 
izen. 

To the Tourist. 

Jacksonville has been called a city of hotels. Of these, 
the following are the leading : 



PKOPKIETOK 


NAME OF HOUSE 


CAPACITY RATES PER DAY 


RATES PER WEEK 


J. R. 

Campbell 

Warren 

J. Leland 

J. B. Baker 


St. James 
Windsor Hotel 
Everett Hotel 


500 $4.00 

000 $4 and upward 

800 $3.00 


$21.00 
$21.00 
Special 



These rank first, and every winter are filled with the 
wealthiest and most noted of this and other nations. Their 
registers often bear the most distinguished of living names. 

The St. James and the Windsor face the city park and 
while near the Opera House and livery stables, are removed 
from the noise and bustle of the business part of the town. 

The first-named occupies an entire block, and is 
bounded by four streets. Its proprietor was a pioneer 
hotel man in Florida, and has seen the town grow from an 
unpaved village. He has a reputation that is national, and 
counts all his guests as friends. 

The Everett is on Bay street, at its busiest point. Its 
windows look out upon the river at its principal docks, the 
viaduct, and the railway rendezvous. It is in the heart of 
business. 

The Windsor and Everett occupy each one half a 
block. They have been recently renovated and largely 
refurnished. See cards on another page. 



ESTABLISHED 1887. 



The Metropolis, 

The Recognized Evening Newspaper in Florida. 

IT GIVES ALL THE SOCIETY, LOCAL, 

STATE AX I) 3IABIXE XEWS OF THE DAY, 

Has tljE Exclusive pranctiisB of tlje Uninn Associated f ress J^eports. 

AS RN RDyERTlSING MEDIUM 



IT HAS NO SUPERIOR 
IN THE STATE. 



1^^" Circulation of a newspaper can always be judged by its advertisers. 
You will find the leading business men of Jacksonville as advertisers in this 
paper. 

SirjiSCKJJ'TIOX rJUCH, IX ADVAKCJi : 

Daily, one year S4 00 I Daily, three months SI 00 

Daily, six months ^ 00 | ISaturffai/ /edition, one year 50c. 

K^" Advertising rates furnished on application. 



The Saturdau Evening Metropolis. 

A six-column, eight-page quarto, giving all the latest news of the day, 
-together with a number of stories and miscellaneous topics of the day. 
Advertising rates furnished on application for this edition. 
^"Address all communications to CARTER «fe RUSSELL, 

Metropolis Building, _____ Jacksonville. 

\\mh farmer and f ruit-BrowBr, 

♦ ^ 

ESTABLISHED 1869. 

«•«» 

THE FOREMOST EXPONENT OP THE NATURAL WEALTH AND THE 
cultural possibilities of Florida. Though devoted mainly to citrus cul- 
ture as the one pre-eminent industrj' which will ever distinguish this 
Commonwealth among all the States of the Union— the one attraction 
"which gives her distinction and brings her colonists from all the countries of 
Christendom— at the same time this journal does not neglect those branches 
of soil culture which, while less celebrated, are none the less useful and 
profitable 

To every member of the English-speaking i-ace who migrates to a semi- 
1;ropical land, rural life presents a great number of untried and novel condi- 
tions which must be mastered thoroughly to insure success. Nowhere else 
where Anglo-Saxon colonists have settled do they so urgently require the 
guidance and instruction of a good agricultural journal as in sub-tropical 
regions. 

xhe: 

Farmer and Fruit-Grower is Published Weekly 

AT $2 A YEAR. 

Address THE PUBLISHER, 

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



44 



TOURISTS AND SETTLERS GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 



Other hotels, quite their equals possibly in comforts,. 



are : 



PROPRIETOR 


NAME OF HOUSE 


CAPACITY 


RATES PER DAY 

$2 50 to $4.00 
$2.50 to $4.00 

$2.50 to $3.00 
$2.50 to $3.00 


RATES PER WEEK 


N. L. Ward 

The Sharpe 

Family 

Ci-apo & 

LeVene 

Dodge & 

CuUen 

G. W. Smith 

Mrs. Hudnall 


Placide 
Geneva 

Carlton 

New Duval 

Grand View 

St. Johns House 


150 
75 

200 
200 


$12.50 and up. 
Special. 

«10 to $17.50 
Special. 



These are all situated in and near the business centres 
of the town. The Placide in on Main street, one block from; 
Bay, on the Main street trolley line, very desirably located. 
It is a new building completed less than two years ago. 
It has all modern appliances and perfect sanitary arrange- 
ments. Its furnishings are exceptionally fine. The rooms 
may be had singly or en suite, with open fire-places in 
every room. With an energetic, progressive proprietor of 
much experience, and with the best cuisine, this house is a 
large success. It is open all the year. (For rates, etc., see 
card.) 

The Geneva is much nearer the depots, wharfs and 
docks. It is one block from Bay street, and nearer the: 
rapidly growing western portion of the city. It has been 
entirely overhauled, re-decorated and furnished, and is in 
the hands of experienced hotel people. 

The Carlton, New Duval and St. John's House are all- 
the-year hotels. 

The following furnish rooms only : 



The Acme 

The Travelers 

The Bristol 

The Oxford 



CAPACITY 



On West Bay 
On West Bay 
On East Bay 
Opp, St. James 



100 
100 
45 
60 



BATES FOB BOOMS 



.50C to .«r.oo 

.50c to Sl.OO 
$3.00 per week 



The Warner House on Laura street, in one of the most 
beautiful residence portions of the city, and Hotel Rose- 
land in the extreme eastern portion of the town, on the 
banks of the St. John's river, are cosy, quiet, carefully-kept 
family hotels of moderate size with reasonable rates. 



k; 



Savings and Trust Bank of Florida, 

JKCKSON^IL-L-e. 

CAPITAL $50,000. 

H. ROBINSON, President. W. J. HARKISHEIMER, Vice-Pres. 

WM. RAWLINSON, Cashier. 



DIRECTORS- 



H. Robinson, 

"W. J. Harkisheimer, 

J. A Henderson 



J. Hildebrandt. 
Philip Walter, 
C. C. Robertson, 



P. E. McMurray, 
R. H. Liggett, 
W. B. Owen. 



Collections made on all points of Florida, and remitted for on day 
of payment. 

Active and Savings Accounts Solicited. Interest Paid on Savings. 



IVIcMURRAY'S 

TRANSFER 

AND JACKSONVILLE 
LIVERY 

AND SALE STABLES, 

15-37 Nevvoan St., 

0pp. Tremont Hotel. 




JACKSONVILLE CLUB STABLES. 
Cor. Bay and Cedar. 

HORSES, BUGGIES, PHAETONS AND OTHER VEHICLES 

CONST-ANTL-V FOR HIRE. 



HORSES fMND 7V^\JL.ES I=OR SKLE. 

Boafding Houses a Specialty. 



THOMAS McMURRAY, Proprietor, 

Jacksonville, Fla. 



IF YOU SHAVE YOURSELF 

A FINE RAZOR IS A NECESSITY. 

We will mail you one guaranteed to require no honing, post paid on 
receipt of $1.25. 

SATISFAO-riON G U A R A NT EIEID. 

R. J. MARTINEZ, Jacksonville, Fla. 



46 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

A method of living in Jacksonville, much in favor 
among those who wish to be untrammeled by the formalities 
of hotel life, is to rent furnished rooms and take meals at 
convenient boarding houses or restaurants near by. In 
bad weather, or for invalids, the meals may be sent to such 
rooms. 

Still another method, which to many recommends, 
itself as economical, is to rent an empty room, and furnish 
it to suit one's own taste and convenience with furniture 
rented for the purpose by the month or week. Furniture 
may be thus hired, and returned when desired, from any 
furniture house in the city. The large establishment of 
the Cleaveland Furniture Co. on West Forsyth street near 
the Geneva Hotel, or Fetting & Co. on East Bay street, 
have large stocks and sell or rent at New York prices. 
Crockery, kerosene or gasolene stoves of every size and 
description, and all other necessaries for light housekeeping 
may be obtained at the same place. See cards. 

The principal boarding houses are : 

Mrs. Henderson's, on Main street, near Monroe. 

Mrs. Slager's, next door to Mrs. Henderson's, is a 
Jewish house, where all Israelites put up. It is stylish and 
first-class, but exclusively Hebrew. 

Mrs. Chapman's, next corner north of St. James Hotel. 

Mrs. McGowan's, corner Laura and Beaver streets. 

Mrs. Ochus, on Ocean street, two blocks from Bay 
street. 

Mrs. Starke, corner Forsyth and Laura streets. 

Mrs. Rich, one block west of St. James. 

Mrs. Fleming's, on Monroe street, three blocks from 
Bay street and one block west of Carleton Hotel. 

All these houses are well kept, most of them with 
much elegance and by refined ladies, and are in all respects 
preferable to a small hotel. They are open all the year 
round, and are kept more specially for local patronage, al- 
though almost any of them will admit a few winter visitors. 

Almost any comfortably established family w^ill accom- 



ISEMAN & CLAUSSEN, 

WHOLESALE 

Commission rierchants, 

Fruits and Produce. 

N05. 220=222 Bay Street, 

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 

FURNJME 

CARPETS ••• MATTINGS 

COOKING STOVES 
OAK MANTLES AND FIREPLACE GOODS, ETC, 



The Largest Assortment South, 



Our Wareroom Covers 36,000 Sq. Ft. Floor Sp.ice. 



Special Low Prices to New Comers Coming into the State. 

SPECIAL DiSCOUNT. 

"We are kiiOAVu as tlie Old Relial)le. Estahli.slied nearly 20 years ago. 



With low prices and strict business principles our success 
has been plTenomenai. 

The Cleaveland Furniture Company, 

415 to 427 W. Forsyth Street, 

(Next to Geneva Hotel.) 

•^1 Jacksonville, plopida. 



48 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

modate an invalid or a tourist, who prefers the quiet of a 
private house to a hotel. Their rates are reasonable, sel- 
dom more than seven dollars per week; often, but five. 

The strict sanitary laws of the city compel such close 
attention to drainage, sewerage, etc., that almost without 
exception all private houses have all modern improvements, 
as bath rooms, pure water, and the like. 

To the I nvalid. 

Jacksonville has many fine physicians of all schools. 
Among the allopathic physicians whose reputation is un- 
questioned are Drs. Drew, Daniels, Livingston, Williams, 
Mitchell, Matthews, Wakefield and others. 

Homeopathy is well represented in the persons of 
Dr. H. B. Stout, and Drs. Johnson, Sr. and Jr. As sur- 
geons, Dr. Matthews, Dr. Livingston, and Dr. Williams 
enjoy high reputations. 

Of first-class druggists, and finely equipped drug 
stores, Jacksonville has her full quota. In the first rank is 
the large and elegantly fitted up establishment of W. A. 
Dell, corner Bay and Laura streets. Another, and a great 
favorite is that of Gilbert Williams cor. of Bay and Laura 
streets. In the western part of Bay street, is the accom- 
plished druggist R. Martinez, who may be found at the foot 
of the viaduct, on the corner of Bay and Bridge streets. 

The livery stables of this city would be creditable to a 
town of 100,000 inhabitants. McMurray's stables corner 
of Forsyth and Newnan streets are equipped with some of 
the finest turnouts in the South. 

Thebaut's stables on Julia street are conveniently near 
the St. James and Windsor Hotels. 

To the Investor. 

He who wishes to inquire into the business oppor- 
tunities, or status in Jacksonville, or the surrounding coun- 
try, or indeed of the State, may safely and freely consult 
Mr. C. C. Robertson. They are sure of a careful hearing. 







01 







THE ST. JAMES, 

JACKSONVILLE, - = FLORIDA. 

SEASON 1895-6. WILL OPEN NOVEMBER 28, 1895. 



THE ST. J AflES needs no introduction to visitors to Florida. From a small 
beginninif in 1869, The St James has increased in size and added to its ap- 
pointments with the increasing popularity ot the tourist's travel to Florida. 

The St. James is to-day the equal, if not the superior, of any hotel in 
Jacksonville and has all the arrangements for the comfort ot its guests. 
Electric bells, electric lights, steam heat in halls and public rooms, bath 
rooms, en sttife. elevator, broad stairways, etc , have been provided. There 
is also over seven hundred feet of veranda for promenade 

The location is unsurpassed, being on the highest ground in Jacksonville 
facinff the St. James Park. 

It has accommodations for five hundred guests The table is supplied 
with carefully tillered rain water, absolutely pure, with artificial ice made 
from distilled water; and the choicest meats, fruits and vegetables from 
Xorthern and Southern markets. 

There is a ticket office in the hotel where tickets are sold and baggage 
checked to all points North. 

Its Music, as in past seasons, will be furnished by Prof. Ed. Prouty's Or- 
chestra, and will be of high grade. Address by mail or telegraph. 



J. R. CAMPBELL, Prop. 

Jacksonville, Florida. 



C. O. CHAMBERLIN, M'gr. 



Photographs may be seen and information given in New York at The 
Outlook Recreation Department, 13 Astor Place. 



50 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

courteous attention, perfectly reliable information, and his 
own pronounced success is proof sufficient of the wisdom 
of his judgment, and the safety of his advice. 

Mr. A. W. Barrs is another well informed and thor- 
oughly reliable dealer. 

In real estate in and about the city, J. C. Greeley & Co. 
are among the most extensive dealers. 

Pleasant Places in and About 
Jacksonville. 

The pleasantest short drives about Jacksonxille are 
through the beautiful suburbs of Springfield and Riverside. 
Both these places are penetrated with trolley lines. For 
the first, take the Main street electric car ; for the latter, take 
Riverside car on Bay street. The round trip on either is a 
pleasant half hour's recreation. Carriages may be hired 
from hackmen on the street for ;$i.oo per hour. T. McMur- 
ray on Newnan street, two doors from Bay street, has a fine 
livery stable, where may be obtained stylish turnouts of all 
descriptions, fine saddle horses, and skilled drivers, all at 
reasonable prices. Mr. McMurray has all a thorough 
horseman's love of fine animals and keeps no others about 
him. (See his card on another page). 

With a hack, the drive through Springfield may be 
continued to Evergreen Cemetery, and beyond it, circling 
the city in what is known as the nine-mile shell drive, re- 
turning through the eastern portion of the city, by Duval 
street, which is smoothly paved, and unobstructed by street 
car lines, or by Bay street, which is as animated and gay in 
a winter afternoon as the boulevards of Paris. 

Points on the "River. 

On the St. John's some lovely places to visit are the 
elegant homes, on the south side of the river, opposite the 
city. A row or sail boat may be obtained at the boat-yard 
near the Yacht Club House at the foot of Market street 
for about twenty-five cents an hour. Skilled oarsmen or 



^OCEHN 

D 



8TMM8H 



p 



MPUNY 




Savannah « Line. 



G. |Vl. SOt^t^ELi, managei^. 



Tlie 81»ii)s of this Line are Appointed to Sail from 

SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK 

On Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. 



FROM SAVANNAH TO BOSTON 

ji vj':ii y TH ujiSJ>A y. 



Fare between Savannah and Xew York, 825 for First Class, $19 for 
Intermediate, 843.30 for Round Trip. 



4®-The Ship from Savannah to Philadelphia, the Dessong, does not carry 
passengers. 



52 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

sailors are easily engaged for twenty-five cents per hour 
each. Yachts and naphtha launches may be hired for ;^i 
per hour, fully manned. The row or sail across the river 
is a delight. 

On the opposite shore two miles up the river is Villa 
Alexandria, the home of Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, widow 
of the late Alexander Mitchell, the railroad king of Mil- 
waukee, and a few years since the Vanderbilt of the north- 
west. This place is reckoned among the noted beautiful 
homes of America. The approach from the river is par- 
ticularly beautiful. 

Two or three miles down the river is the Cummings' 
place, a home founded by the late Asa Packer, of Penn- 
sylvania, now owned by his sister and heir, Mrs. Cummings. 
Another place in the same vicinity, most picturesquely 
situated, is the winter home of Gen. Divens of Elmira, 
New York. Other homes of great beauty are dotted along 
the banks for miles. 

To those who do not like the water, there is another 
way of reaching these points. A ferry boat leaves the 
wharf at the foot of Newnan street every half hour. A hack 
or other vehicle can cross on this boat, and a pleasant drive 
of two miles over a shelled road, ends at the rear entrance 
and porter's lodge of Villa Alexandria. At certain seasons, 
visitors are allowed to drive through these enchanting 
grounds, on all days except Sundays. 

A pleasant river road leads to the other places men- 
tioned. 

A delightful river excursion is a trip on one of the St. 
John's river steamers to Green Cove Springs, Magnolia, 
Palatka and other points up the river. The trip to Green 
Cove, Mandarin and Magnolia may be accomplished in a 
day, if most of the time be spent on the river. Only brief 
visits are afforded at each point. A more satisfactory way 
is to spend a few days at Green Cove or Magnolia, which 
are within walking distance of each other, and both of 



Cheap Cash Grocery, 

NO. 504 MAIN STREET. 

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 

FRESH GROCERIES, CANNED GOODS, 
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 

NEW YORK STEAM LAUNDRY. 

26 OCEAN ST., NEAR BAY. 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



Fi*. EJ. ®:iVi:iTH, F»roi3rl©tor. 



CALDWELL & SCOTT, 

WHOLESALE 

Coffees, Teas, Spices # Grocer's Siioiries. 

Ill Main Street, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



TELEPHONE NO. 41. ESTABLISHED 1869. TIME TRIED AND FIRE TESTED . 

J. H. NORTON, 

(Attorney at Law.) 
NORTHWEST COR. BAY AND OCEAN STS , - JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 

fire: insurance:. 

Representing Leading American and English Companies. 

YOUR BUSINESS SOLICITED. 

^P°°Refers to Patrons who have had losses during the past twenty-five years. 



54 tourists' and SETTLEES' guide to FLORIDA. 

which have excellent hotels. The fare is cheap, the hotels 
;^2.oo and ;^3.oo houses, and the trip, in toto, an inexpensive 
but delightful one. 

To those who wish a glimpse of the Atlantic, the rail- 
road to Pablo, a local summer seaside resort, with a won- 
derful beach, offers an opportunity. Take ferry at foot of 
Newnan street and train from depot on opposite side of the 
river. Or, either steamer or train will carry the traveller 
to Mayport, at the mouth of the St. John's river. Take 
steamer at foot of Main street or train from Pablo depot, 
across the river. Fine surf bathing at Pablo, and incom- 
parable fishing at Mayport. At Burnside, on the Atlantic 
beach, between the two points, is a hotel. 

From Jacksonville, the tourist who wishes to make a 
trip of the State, before he leaves it, will be forced to make a 
choice of routes. 

Re may go down the eastern coast closely hugging 
the Atlantic shore until Biscayne Bay, his utmost limit, is 
reached. Thence he must return nearly half the wa}' to 
Titusville, and from there swing in long graceful curves 
across the peninsula to Tampa on the Gulf Coast. From 
this point, he can turn northward through the western 
counties until he reaches the northern portions of the State. 
Here he may turn westward and traverse what may be 
called the pan-handle of the State, retracing his steps and 
arriving again in Jacksonville. 

Or, with equally good results, he may reverse this 

I LEAD ; OTHERS FOLLOW. 



GILBERT W. WILLIAMS, 

Bay Street, Corner Hooaii, JICKSONUILLE, PLORIDI. 

PROMI'T AJfn PERSOffAL ATTENTION TO ALL PRESCRIP- 
TION WORK. ONLY Tin: FINEST CHEMICALS USED. 



t^BDUCHD t^ATES TO Rlili POULTS. 




'S 





(Member American Ticket Brokers' Association.) 

FEILIX GARCIA, Manager, 

201 West Bay Street - - Cor. Bay and Hogan, 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



FLORIDA TOURS. 

ATLANTA OFFICE, 7 N.PRYOR ST., OPP. THE"KIIVIBALL." TAMPA OFFICE, 313 FRANKLIN ST. 



THIS HANDSOME 

Oak Rocker, 

Upholstered in Silk Plush, 

ONLYJ3.50. 

OTHEUS AJT 

$3.75, $3, $4, $6, 




AND Ur. AT 



E. M. FETTINB'S 

FURNITURE 
STORE, 

14 East Bay Street, 

JACKSONVILE. FLA. 



56 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

itinerary, and go first to the extreme western end of the 
State, return to within less than one hundred miles of Jack- 
sonville, then veer southward parallel with the western or 
gulf coast of the peninsula, turning eastward, and by the 
East Coast Line return to Jacksonville. 

For many reasons, it were well perhaps to take the 
first as a typical route. 

The first objective point would be 




FLORIDA EAST COAST HOTEL SYSTEM 

C. B. KNOTT, General Superintendent. 




HOTEL PONCE DE LEON. 

GiLLis & Murray, Manager- 

Rate, $5.00 a!id upward per day. 
Open January to April. 



HOTEL ALCAZAR. 

Jos. p. Greaves, 

Rate, $3.00 and upward per d; 
Open Novemlier to May. 



^fanager. 




HOTEL CORDOVA. 

Rooms Only. February and March 



HOTEL ORMOND. 

Anderson S: Price, ifanagcrs. 

Open January 11 to April. 
Rate, S4.00 and upward per day. 




HOTEL ROYAL POINCIANA. 

II. AV. Merrili Manager 

Rate, $5.00 and upward per day. 
January 20 to April. 



PALM BEACH INN. 

Fred Sterry, Manager. 

Rate, $4.00 and upward per day. 
Open December to May. 



IL AMrMstta^ 



Distance from Jacksonville 38 miles. Fare $1.50. 
Round Trip, ^3.00. Take East Coast Railway at Union 
Depot. Ticket ofifice in Transportation Row on West Bay 
street, between Hogan and Julia streets. 



It has been said that the three most interesting places 
on this continent are Santa Fe, Toronto and St. Augustine. 
Whatever may be said of the other two, St. Augustine has 
largely occupied the public eye for the last few years. 

It has ever been a point of historical interest, as the 
first settled town in America. The old fort looked over 
the bay, the Spanish grandee strode with jingling spurs 
through the narrow streets, watched by dark-eyed senor- 
itas from the overhanging balconies above; the devout 
priest passed to the old cathedral, and black-robed nuns 
glided within the convent doors, more than half a century 
before the hymns of the Puritans waked the echoes of the 
New England woods, or the wassail songs of the Dutch 
rang sturdily over the swamps of Manhattan Island. With 
all this, here is to-day the same old fort, intact, complete, 
impregnable. The same cathedral simply restored after its 
partial destruction by fire ; the same chime of bells in the 
tower calls the devout to morning mass or evening vespers, 
that summoned worshipers before William Penn had ever 
seen an Indian. Deep cast in their sides is the story of 
their age — 1683. Three centuries old ! and the cathedral in 
which they hang antedates them by a score of years. 

If the town were dilapidated, repulsive and inaccess- 
ible this his.toric interest would call a full quota of visitors. 
But when, added to this, we find that the place was originally 



58 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

modeled after the cramped little towns that nestle in narrow 
valleys among Castilian mountains, or close under the crags 
of a sea-cliff, on a Spanish coast ; that it was built of almost 
imperishable material, and stands to-day, a typical foreign 
town on American soil, with all the dignity, but none of the 
decrepitudeof extreme old age, it then becomes a magnet of 
wondrous power, and its visitors number thousands each 
year. 

Mrs. Stowe, on her first visit, remarked that it seems as 
if some sleepy old town in sunny Spain, had broken loose 
from its moorings, and slipping into the Atlantic, had 
stranded on the American shore, leaving its overlooking 
castle behind. 

Within the past ten years, however, a change has 
come over the dreamy old tow^n. Modern capital and en- 
terprise has supplied the missing castle — a structure more 
suitable for a king's palace than for any other use. With a 
good taste that is an inspiration, this building that contains 
every convenience and luxury of modern ingenuity, is built 
in such complete harmony with its ancient surroundings 
that there is no jar or discord in the whole. 

Nothing in America, and not many things in Europe, 
can approach in architectural beauty and magnificence of 
design, the group of Spanish-Moresque Palaces, the Hotels 
Ponce de Leon, Alcazar and Cordova. On one side the 
park-like grounds, sparkling fountains, tropical verdure and 
blooming plants mark the entrance grounds of one hotel. 
The round tower, the kneeling balconies, the wide parapets 
of a mediaeval castle, gives a mere intimation of the di- 
mensions of another. At the left a gate-way, lofty, arched 
and grand in proportions, as rich in its finishings and as 
imposing in its entirety as any of the triumphal arches of 
foreign cities. Through this arched gate-way, entrance is 
had to the enclosed court of the Hotel Ponce de Leon, 
blooming at all times of the year with fragrance and beauty. 
This wonderful building is a monolith, practically one 
single stone. It has been molded from the concrete of 



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EONSTRUCTED by the builders of the Ponce de Leon, the Valencia em- 
bodies the most perfect hotel arrangements of the day. All is homelike 
and comfortable within, and the broad verandas overlook spacious 
grounds, beautiful with the orange, the rose and the palm. The house 
is delightfully situated, on St. George street (south of the Plaza). It is 
conducted by Mrs. Mary Frazer, whose successful management has been 
known to so many St Augustine visitors during the past fifteen years. 



60 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

which it is built. It is almost time-proof, entirely fire-proof, 
and so firm and solid that it would nonplus an earthquake. 
From turret to foundation stone there is no sham, no imi- 
tation. All is solid massive stone, genuine terra cotta; real 
Italian marble, and the finest selections of Mexican onyx, 
and but little of other materials is employed in its struc- 
ture. This is equally true of the other two hotels. 

In one, "The Cordova," is the famous sun-parlor, a 
room made entirely of glass and luxuriously furnished, 
where invalids may enjoy all the vivifying effects of sun- 
light, without being exposed to the lightest touch of outside 
air. In the other, "The Alcazar," are the same Moorish 
designs and furnishings, but he finds here an in-door sAvim- 
ming pool. It is deep and wide, and through it runs a 
stream of pure warm water. It is warm enough for the 
most delicate invalid in the coldest January day. It is all 
under roof, and all most systematically and conveniently 
arranged for both sexes and all ages. 

But the acme is reached when all three of this un- 
equaled group is seen at night, ablaze from roof to base 
with thousands of electric lights. It is worth coming far 
to see. 

There need be no fear of promising too much when 
urging a traveler to visit St. Augustine. Words cannot 
tell one half its quaint beauty, the charm of its graceful age, 
nor the magnificence of its renewed youth. 

The wonderful climate and the warm sea air of the 
Atlantic ocean, old Spanish landmarks, romantic scenery, 
marvelous treasures of architectural beauty and hotel ac- 
commodations of the highest grade, render it the equal of 
any winter watering-place on earth. 

Year after year the attractions of St. Augustine have 
drawn increased numbers of pleasure seekers and invalids, 
until now it is the winter home of thousands. 

In visiting St. Augustine one can scarcely go astray 
for a hotel. Of the celebrated Flagler group, the Ponce 



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de Leon accommodates 500 guests. Its charges are $5 
per clay and upwards. Tt is to be. this year, under the 
skillful management of M .^ssrs. GilHs & Murray. The Al- 
cazar which affords room for 300 is under the care of Joseph 
P. Greaves. Rates from $4.00 to $3.00. The Cordova is 
the annex which relieves the plethora of the other two. 

Of other hotels there is a great abundance of all sorts 
and sizes, and in almost every street. A tabulated list will 
be found elsewhere. The largest and best, exclusive of the 
Flager hotels, is the San Marco, a short distance outside 
the city gates. It has a capacity of 500 with rates from 
^2.50 to $5.00 per day. Blanchard and Hager, Props. 

To those who wish quiet elegance it is easy to recom- 
mend the Valencia, situated on St. George street south of 
the Plaza. It was constructed by the builders of the Ponce 
de Leon, and embodies the most perfect hotel arrange- 
ments of the day. All is homelike and comfortable within, 
and the broad verandas overlook spacious grounds filled 
with verdure and bloom. 

It is conducted by Mrs. Frazer, a woman of fifteen 
years success in hotel management. This hotel can ac- 
commodate 100 guests. Rates $3.00 per day or $13.00 
to $17.50 per week. 

Another cosy, family hotel, on a quiet street, but re- 

CRADDOCK house:. 

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This well known and popular house is now open for the Season of 1805-6. 
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moved only two blocks from the very heart of the city is 
the Craddock House on Bridge street. 

It is admirably conducted by Mrs. J. E. Craddock, and 
is a favorite and popular house. Its capacity is 25 ; its. 
terms are $1.50 to $2,00 per day with special rates by the 
week, month or season, or to families. 

The following is a partial list of the other and smaller 
hotels, some of which may be found in almost every street. 



LOCATION 


>'AME 


CAPACITY 


BATE PER DAY 


PROPRIETOR 


Facing the Bay 


Ocean View 


60 to 75 


$2.00 


W. S. M. 
Pinkham 


St. George st. 


Lori!lard Vi la 


35 


.$2.00 to $3.00 


Mrs. 
Hernandez 


Faces the Plaza 
St. Geoge st. 
St. George st. 
St. George st. 

Faces the Plaza 


Plaza Hotel 
Magnolia 
Palmetto 
Columbia 

Algonquin 


100 
250 
30 
50 
70 


$2.00 
$3.00 to $4.00 
S2.00 
$2.00 
$2.00 


S. F. Bennett 

J. S. Bentley 
W. M. Teahen 
G. S. Messerve 



For those whose time is limited, an easy way to pro- 
cure a fair idea of the beauties of St. Augustine is to leave 
Jacksonville on an early morning train, and arrive in St. 
Augustine before the middle of the forenoon. Go at once 
to the Ponce de Leon and register for lunch which is served 
from I to 3 p. m., and for which he will be charged 
^i.oo. This makes the traveler a guest of the hotel, and 
at liberty to stroll through and examine its wonderful in- 
terior. He may also visit and explore the annexes, the 
Cordova and Alcazar. When lunch is served he may thus 
be admitted to the dining room — an art gallery in itself — and 
worth much more than the elaborate and princely meal 
which will be served beneath the stately dome. 

If the lunch be partaken as soon as the room is open 
there will be time after it for a drive through the city to 
the plaza, the slave market, the cathedral, the old city gates, 
and the fort, and a return to the depot in time for the last 
train to Jacksonville. The train arrives at the latter place 
in time for a late dinner. 

This way of seeing St. Augu.stine is simply reading 
the head lines, but it is better than missing it entirely. 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 63 

To the Tourist. 

Those who can proceed more leisurely will find that it 
will take many days to exhaust St. Augustine. It has 
many odd, half-hidden nooks, that it is a delight to explore. 

For instance, walking towards the sea on the southern 
side of the Alameda, pass the northern end of the Cordova, 
and continue the stroll to the first corner occupied by a 
drug store. Turn this corner, and face southward keeping 
the right hand wall. After walking less than half a block, 
a wall presents itself that may easily be taken for the rear 
of some large building. Presently, it is possible, the seeker 
finds a closed (or open) door. If closed, and he dares pull 
the bell knob, and thus gain admission ; or, if open, and he 
gratifies his curiosity by peeping in, he finds himself facing the 
end of a porch. It is on a level with the street, has a stone floor, 
is supported by stone columns, long and low, and runs at 
right angles with the street, and is really the front entrance 
of a dwelling-house. In a distance of not more than lOO 
feet he has passed from the busy, bustling crowds that throng 
•the latest, most up-to-date structures, to the typical old St. 
Augustine of three centuries ago. The chances are that 
the wall through which the door admits him, and the floor 
he treads upon were put in place three hundred years be- 
fore he was born, long before Mary, Queen of Scots, was 
beheaded, or Richelieu plotted. After thoroughly recon- 
noitering the city there are many 

Pleasant Excursions 

that may be made to points in the vicinity. The trip to 
Anastasia Island and Light House, is one of interest and 
easily made. To the North Beach is another trip full of 
delight. 

For the philanthropist a place full of interest is the 
State asylum for the deaf, dumb, and bhnd. This is a 
flourishing institution under the charge of Prof. H. N. 
Felkel, and a corps of able assistants. Visitors are always 



64 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

welcome, and will find much to gratify and interest them. 
Take a carriage drive out through the city gates fcr more 
than half a mile beyond, then turn to the east or right and 
follow a pleasant road through the woods, till you come to 
the buildings in a cool, shady dell. 

Four miles from St. Augustine, at a little place called 
Moultrie is the Carmona Vineyard, where there are seventy- 
five acres of grapes, and in the vicinity nearly 200 acres. 
This vineyard was set with White Niagaras in March, and 
shipments of grapes were made in June of the year follow- 
ing. The second year the yield was two and one-half tons 
to the acre. 

To the Invalid. 

It is hardly necessary to offer a guide to drug^stores, 
physicians or livery stables. The life of the city is along 
the Alameda, on the Plaza, and along St. George street, all 
within a stone's throw of each other, and drug stores and 
physicians' offices are interspersed at easy interv^als and are 
unmistakable. 

The liveries do not need to be sought. Jehus in 
stylish turnouts line the curbings and are ever alert, and 
come eagerly at the slightest beckoning. 

To the Settler or Investor. 

Any information regarding lands or real estate in or 
around St. Augustine, may be obtained by application to 
Mr. J. H. Slater. He not only is well and thoroughly in- 
formed, but may be implicitly trusted with business, He 
furnishes abstracts of property, and makes a specialty of 
exchanging northern for southern property. He may be 
found near the Cordova, in the heart of the city. 



TOURISTS AND SETTLERS GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 



65 



Palatka. 

Distant from Jacksonville 56 miles. Fare $2.00. Take 
J., T. & K. W. R'y. or by the East Coast Line, which makes 
connection at this point with the G., S. & F. R. R., the 
J., T. & K. W. R'y., the Florida Southern Railway, and 
the St. John's River and Ocklawaha River steamboats. 



Palatka has a population of about 6,000, and possesses 
all the conveniences of a modern town. 

The hotels that are sure to be open the coming winter 
are the following : 



PBOPKIETOR 




CAPACITY 


RATE PER DAY 


PER WEEK 


S . Graham 
Jas. Gamble 
J. Falk 


Graham House 
St Georfi'e 
Arlington 


250 
KK) 
tiO 


.■?2.50 to $3.00 

$2.00 to .'52.50 

$;2.00 


iflO to «15 
Special 



Continuing southward, the road veers to the east, and 
the water scenery changes from the St. John's to the At- 
lantic coast. Lift hats to the St. John's before leaving it, 
for it is a noble stream and worthy, and you have reached, 
at Palatka, the head of tide water navigation. 



Ormond. 

Distance from Jacksonville 65 miles. 
Take East Coast Line. 



Fare S4.25. 



The first of the east coast towns is Ormond-on-the- 
Halifax. It is situated on both sides the Halifax ri\er. the 
two portions of the town being connected by a bridge. 
Near the city, the Tomoka River, one of the most pictur- 
esque and interesting streams in all Florida joins the Hali- 
fax. This stream is easily explored by steam or naptha 
launches, or by sail or row boats, and the silvery Ormond 
Beach, four hundred feet wide, hard and level as an asphalt 
pavement, and extending thirty miles without a break, are 
the great attractions at this place. Here are also pleasant 



66 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

drives through fragrant pine woods, varied with groves of 
oak and palmetto. The surf-bathing is here superb, and 
may be indulged in five days out of seven throughout the 
winter season. Fishing here is unrivalled sport. 

The Hotel Ormond is one of the finest and most com- 
plete in the State. It accommodates 275 guests; Rates 
;^4.oo to $5.00 per day. The Coquina, Sunnyside and 
Granada are smaller, with capacities not above 70, and rates 
from $1.50 to $3.00 per day. 



Daytona. 

A sea-side town iio miles from Jacksonville. Fare 
from Jacksonville ^4.50. 



Large numbers of northern families congregate yearly. 
Here are the winter cottages of several wealthy families 
whose homes would do credit to Cape May or Newport. 
They have their winter gardens, and their mid-winter 
roses, and are protected from the rougher Atlantic winds 
by a long wind-break of tall oleanders, that are themselves 
almost perpetual bloomers. 

Small hotels and comfortable boarding houses abound, 
and are run at reasonable rates. The beautiful beach, fine 
drives, and excellent fishinsr are the attractions. 



AJew Smyrna. 

On the Atlantic coast 125 miles from Jacksonville. 
Fare from Jacksonville $5.10. 



It is believed to be the oldest settlement in Florida, 
south of St. Augustine. It has the same fine beach, good 
fishing and boating, and an additional attraction in the 
ruins of an old sugar mill, built, it is supposed, more than 
one hundred years ago, by Turnbull, the indigo planter. 
Or, as some believe, it is the remains of a chapel built by 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 67 

the followers of Columbus in 1496 or 1497. It is a puzzle 
to antiquarians, and is visited by scores of tourists yearly. 

The three last mentioned points are favorite summer 
resorts for families from the interior portions of the penin- 
sula. They come in great numbers to enjoy the surf-bath- 
ing, sea breeze and fish-diet. 

Not far below this point, the road skirts the Indian 
River, and runs for many niiles closely on its border. This 
famous body of water is not a river, not even a stream. It 
is simply an arm of the sea, shut in by sand dunes, and 
connected with the ocean by inlets and outlets. It has 
neither source, mouth nor current, but it swarms with fish, 
oyster beds, and water fowl, and all along its banks (or 
shores) is a country full of game, both large and small. 
The ride along this river is with the water and its saline 
breezes on the one side, and much of the way, an unbroken 
hammock wilderness on the other. 

The first point of importance is 



Titusville. 

Distance from Jacksonville 160 miles. Fare from 
Jacksonville $S-6o. Take either East Coast Line, or the 
J., T. &. K. W. R'y., better known as The Tropical Trunk 
Line. 

At Titusville the river is at its greatest width — six 
miles across. The town is the county seat of Brevard 
county, has electric lights, water works, etc, and many im- 
portant industries, that of shipping fresh fish in ice being a 
lucrative and rapidly growing one. Two live weekly news- 
papers keep Titusville and Brevard county conspicuously 
before the world. 

The hotels are 



NAME 


CAPACIY 


BATES PEB DAY 


PBOPEIETOE 


Indian River Hotel 
Lund House 


200 

30 


$3.00 
«1.50 


0. H. Voss 
W. Lund 



68 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

Here, as elsewhere, are small boarding houses, for 
local accommodation chiefly, but sometimes admit a few 
winter visitors. 

Throughout this country, the traveler is in the very 
home of the celebrated Indian River oranges. Hidden 
away back among the deeps of the hammocks of which he 
sees but the outer green walls, and fringe of tall palmetto 
trees, are groves wide in extent, and mammoth in the pro- 
portions of their trees. This year, however, the trees are 
simply stately, ghostly skeletons. Nothing could more 
fully illustrate the wondrous fertility of the soil, or the re- 
cuperative qualities of the climate than these groves, as 
seen in the closing summer and early autum. Green 
sprouts from the roots, and vigorous shoots from the trunk 
have in the past few months stretched upward until, in 
many cases, their lusty growth is seen protruding through 
and above the boughs of the old tree. From Titusville, 
the cry is "On to Palm Beach !" Indeed, the fever to move 
rapidly to this objective point is felt immediately upon leav- 
ing St. Augustine. 

South of Titusville the journey may be continued by 
water or by rail. By water, by taking the steamer of the 
Indian River Steamboat Co. ; by rail, by the East Coast 
Line. As the flourishing little towns along the river are 
built immediately on the bank, they are in full view from 
the river. As each was until this year embowered in its 
orange groves, and a continuous line of groves filled the 
intervening spaces of country, the ride on the river, was 
one long to be remembered. 

On leaving Titusville the railroad departs from the 
river and running back of the towns, the traveler in some 
instances only knows of their proximity, by reading their 
names on the little stations, where a carriage is waiting to 
convey him riverward to the town. 

Such a place is City Point ; another is Rockledge, in 
previous seasons known far and wide for its fine hotel, the 
Hotel Indian River. It is doubtful if this hotel will be 





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open during the coming winter, not because Rockledge is 
less delightful than ever, but because of business compli- 
cations. 

Other energetic, thriving river towns are Sharpe's, 
Eau Gallic, Melbourne, and Cocoa, all possessing unrivalled 
opportunities for fishing, boating and hunting. 



On to Palm Beach. 

Leaving these, and hastening onward, and southward, 
still hugging the river bank more or less closely, the scen- 
ery changes. All traces of orange trees, dead or alive, dis- 
appear. Pineapple patches appear, in regular set rows. 
They increase as the train speeds on until the patches blend 
into fields and the fields coalesce, until at last the run is 
through from eighteen to twenty-five miles or more of 
almost continuous pineapple fields. Nor are these narrow 
strips beside the railroad, but they stretch out on either 
side as far as the eye can reach. They seem like the great 
corn or wheat fields of the northwest, or the endless cotton 
plantations of the lower Mississippi valley. 

The country becomes hilly, and still the spiny rows 
are not interrupted, they climb hills and pass over them to 
the other side, ascending and descending slopes and travers- 
ing valleys or covering levels with the same precision. 

Just as this profusion begins to decline again into in- 
terrupted patches West Palm Beach is announced. 



Lake Worth. 

Distance from Jacksonville 300 miles. Fare from 
Jacksonville $1 1.40. 



The reader need not fear to betray his ignorance by 
asking: " What is Lake Worth?" because Lake Worth is a 
recent discovery. For a score of years a few early pioneers, 



70 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

whose thrilling experiences with wildcats, panthers, rattle- 
snakes and alligators would fill volumes, lived a somewhat 
lonely, but really blissful, life amid the surpassing beauties of 
Lake Worth. Near Jupiter Lighthouse Indian River returns 
to the sea which gave it, and, as a river, terminates its exist- 
ence. Eight miles south of this point, and nearly 300 miles 
south of Jacksonville, lies Lake Worth. It is a long, nar- 
row sheet of water running parallel with the ocean. Like 
the Indian River, its name is a misnomer. It is a body of 
salt water connected with the ocean by inlets. Like all the 
waters of Florida it is a clear amber color, its bottom easily 
visible anywhere. It is many miles long, and is at most 
places less than a mile or a half mile in width. Houses on 
either shore are plainly visible from the other. It is sep;; \ 
arated from the ocean by a narrow strip of land. Along \ 
its shores all tropical growths are perfectly at home. Huge 
rubber trees flourish as if in Brazilian forests. The orange 
has never thriven here, but this is the region of the cocoa- 
nut and the pineapple, and all other fully tropical fruits. 

Struggling settlers dotted its shores with their homes, 
and until the last three or four years lived in almost utter 
isolation. Then by some happy chance, this genuine para- 
dise was discovered by enterprise, capital and good taste. 
Along its shores little towns have sprung up and flourished 
like gourd vines. 

Lake Worth may be reached by two routes — the Jack- 
sonville, Tampa and Key West Railway to Titusville, thence 
by Indian River Steamboat Company to Jupiter, thence by 
Jacksonville and Lake Worth Railway to Juno near the 
head of Lake Worth. The other route is entirely by rail 
from Jacksonville to West Palm Beach direct via the East 
Coast Line. 



West Palm Beach. 

This is the metropolis of Lake Worth and the present 
terminus of the East Coast Line. It has sprung within the 



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E. H. DIMICK, Prop. LEE RUSSELL, M'gr. 

WEST PALM BEACH DRUG STORE 



DEALERS IN 



Drilgs, Toilet Brticles, Drilgpts' Sundries, 

PINE STUTIONERY AND SCHOOL BOOKS. 



PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED. 



WEST PALM BEACH, - - FliORIDA. 

DEALER IN HARDWARE. 

Plumber, Steam and iJas Fitter, Tin, Copper and Iron Work. 

DEALER IN 

Pumps, Fittings and General Plumbing Supplies, Tinware, 
Agate Ware, and House Furnishings of Every Kind. 
Agent for the Aermotor. Constructor of Irrigation Plants. 
Estimates for Work and Material, 

One or Both Promptly Furnished. 



WEST PAL.M BEACH, - - FL.ORIDA. 



A. D. 1865. A. D. 1895. 



W. C. C, Branning, 

West Palm Beach, 

Florida. 

Fine Watch and Jewelry Repairer. 
Thirty Years' Practical Experience. 



72 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

short space of two years from a pineapple plantation to a 
town of nearly i,ooo inhabitants. It has paved streets, 
a fine water-works system, a bank, two newspapers, etc., 
and bids fair to be within a few years one of the most at- 
tractive towns in Florida. Many businesses are already es- 
tablished, and in dimensions that would do credit to a town 
of 20,000. The town has all the push and bustle and 
much of the crudeness of the mushroom towns of the 
early West. Every want of the tourist or settler can be 
supplied at the stores in this little town. 

The invalid will find at the store of Mr. E. H. Dimick 
a full assortment of pure, fresh drugs, fine stationery, all 
kinds of toilet articles, and other goods usually found in 
a first-class city drug store. Mr. Dimick has been presi- 
ident of the Lake Worth Preserving Company, which 
makes a specialty of the manufacture of guava jelly. 

The tourist who is fond of outdoor sports can find no 
better place in which to enjoy either fishing, boating or 
hunting, for either large or small game. Full equipments 
for either angler or hunter can be obtained at the very com- 
plete hardware store of O. W. Weybrecht, on Clematis 
avenue, in almost the center of the town, and nearly oppo- 
sity the city bank. 

The curio hunter will find much that is unique in this 
locality, at the watch-repairing establishment of Mr. W. 
C. C. Branning, near Weybrecht's store. Mr. Branning 
not only repairs jewelry with a skill that comes from thirty 
years' experience, but is an artist in alligator ivory He 
carves in high relief on alligator teeth or wild boar tusks a 
deer hunt with hounds in full cry, or pointers at a stand, or 
retrieve, in the most spirited and life-like attitudes, and 
with the highest finish. 

There is also at West Palm Beach a dealer in bird 
plumes. The beautiful, large white cranes and snowy 
egrets, which a few years ago were seen in immense flocks, 
often in thousands, on every river and lake in Florida, are 
now seldom seen. They are, in fact, practically extinct, ex- 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 73 

cept that in the deep recesses of the Everglades they are 
still found in considerable quantities. During the month of 
April, when the plumage is most beautiful, the Indians 
emerge from the Everglades and appear in this little town 
loaded with the plumes. This local dealer buys them and 
ships to a firm in Jacksonville, whence they are again 
shipped to New York. The books of this dealer show that 
his purchases, day after day during the season, foot up 
from ;^6o to i^iio worth per day. When it is remembered 
that the superb bird, found nowhere else on the continent, 
is killed to procure often less than a dozen delicate fringe- 
like feathers that grow on the upper part of the back, and 
which are as light as thistle-down, and the fact that some 
of the Indians bring in a pound or more each day, it is 
easy to estimate the immense slaughter. Moreo\'er, it is 
during the nesting season that the plumage is most beauti- 
ful, and every bird killed leaves a brood of little ones to 
perish. Extermination is not far off. The plumes at Palm 
Beach brings ;$7.oo per ounce. The more dainty egrets are 
sometimes rated at ;$35.oo per ounce. The State Legisla- 
ture has endeavored more than once to prohibit this slaugh- 
ter by law, but, as history proves, the Seminole has never 
come under the laws of the white man. No law reaches or 
troubles the Florida Indian. The reform must come from 
the other end of the line. The " coming woman," of 
whom we have such nauseating doses nowadays, has de- 
veloped a good deal of force. If this could be exerted in 
a good direction, and declare these plumes unfashionable, 
the traffic would soon cease. As long as the demand con- 
tinues, the Indian will procure his whisky and ammunition 
by this convenient means until the supply is exhausted. 

If the traveler arrives before " the season " is fully 
opened he looks in vain for a hotel, while right before his 
face is the most celebrated all-the-year-house on the whole 
length of the coast — Vail's Floating Hotel. 

Stepping from the train, the traveler is met by a polite 
porter who takes his grip, and with a wave of the hand 



74 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

and " dis way, sah," guides across a track to a plank walk, 
and with two or three steps he is in the forward end of a 
steamboat, and he is asked to register, for it is also a cosy 
little hotel office. 

When the rush for the lower Indian River began, the 
only inhabitants anywhere near Jupiter Inlet was the family 
of the light-house keeper. Captain Vail took the steamer 
Rockledge from the upper Indian River, remodeled it and 
anchored it at the inlet for the accommodation of the on- 
coming prospectors. It here did capital service as a hotel for 
four years. When the cry came, " Onward to West Palm 
Beach ! " he pulled up his anchor and put his hotel in motion. 
He entered Lake Worth and cast anchor snugly beside the 
railroad and depot. 

The East Coat Line is rapidly extending still south- 
ward to Biscayne Bay as a terminus. As the season opens 
the Floating Hotel will follow the tide of travel. It will 
be found during the early winter at New River, and later 
at Biscayne Bay, where it will do its part for the comfort of 
the public until the contemplated hotel at Biscayne Bay is 
completed. It will accommodate 60 guests; its rates are 
1^3.00 per day. 

Another hotel at West Palm Beach is Park Cottage; 
faces the lake at the foot of the city wharf; has a capacity 
of 25 ; rates ^2.00 to $3.00 per day. Proprietor, O. Howes. 
Open in winter only. 

In the scarcity of hotels, a cosy and comfortable re- 
course is in rented furnished rooms, in which one may be- 
come quite at home, and with very little trouble practice 
what is called light housekeeping. The Branning Bakery 
on Clematis avenue, or John Seybold on Narcissus street, 
can furnish all kinds of breads, cakes, pies, etc., made fresh 
every day, at reasonable prices. All kinds of fresh gro- 
ceries and meats are easily procured. This mode of pass- 
ing a winter is found to be both economical and homelike, 
and for invalids more quiet than life in a hotel. 

The great feature and attraction of this locality is not 



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tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 75 

at West Palm Beach, but across the lake at Palm Beach 
proper. This is the 

■Hotel "Royal Poinciana. 

The lake at this point is 1,300 feet wide, and on the 
•opposite side, in full vdew from every part of West Palm 
Beach, is the imposing front of the Royal Poinciana. It 
•might well be called a royal structure from its appearance, 
but it receives its name from the royal poinciana, a tree of 
wondrous beauty and tropic bloom which grows in rich 
abundance in the grounds. 

The building was erected in 1894 by Mr. H. M. Flag- 
ler, and is a splendid structure in the colonial style of arch- 
itecture. It is six stories high, and from the tower which 
crowns its roof a most magnificent view may be had of 




76 TOURISTS, AND SETTLERs' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 

ocean, lake, canal, river and forest scenery, an area of 
nearly twenty miles north and south. It is 700 feet long, 
and will shelter in an emergency 1,000 guests. It has an 
elegant ball-room, an immense and finely decorated dining- 
room, a commodious colonial sitting-room and tasteful par- 
lors. It faces the west, on the lake, while in the rear, only 
about a quarter of a mile, is its attachment or annex, the 
Beach Pavilion. Here are numerous guests' rooms, a superb 
cafe, swimming pools, supplied with sulphur and ocean 
water — warm or cold — baths and bath-houses. Surf-bath- 
ing may be indulged in every day in the year. 

The popularity of this hotel during the season of 
1894-95 was phenomenal. For weeks it was necessary to 
give unfavorable replies to hundreds of applicants for 
rooms. For the purpose of providing ample hotel accom- 
modations in the future, the Palm Beach Inn (by the sea) is. 
now being built, and will be open for the season of 1895-96. 
It is a fine building, containing 400 guest chambers and all 
the accessories of a modern first-class hotel. It faces the 
ocean, and from its spacious varandas the views are superb.. 
A pier 1,000 feet in length is in course of construction, to 
be run straight out into the ocean in front of this Inn-by 
the-Sea. 

To reach Palm Beach and the Royal Poinciana take the 
ferry at the end of the city wharf a few hundred feet fromi 
the depot. 

The rates are ^5.00 per day and upward. It will this, 
winter be under the management of Mr. Henry W. Mer- 
rill. 

The Inn-by-the-Sea will be finished by the opening of 

JOHN SEYBOUD, 

BAKERY CONFECTIONERY,, 

Narcissus St. - - WEST PALM BEACH. 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 77 

the season, and will be in charge of Mr. C. Davis. Its rates 
will be ;^4.oo per day and upwards. 

There is no way at present of going further south than 
Lake Worth except by stage and sailboat. But this will 
mot be the case for long. The East Coast Line is to be 
immediately extended to Biscayne Bay. Another of the 
mammoth Flagler hotels will be erected at its terminus. 
So eager is the rush to this point, that wild, uncleared land 
is already held at the fabulous price of^i,000 per acre^ 
At present there are no accommodations for travelers south 
of Lake Worth other than tenting out. 

Turning northward, steps must be retraced to Titus- 
ville, from which point the J., T. & K. W. R'y may be 
taken to 

Sanford. 

Distance from Jacksonville 125 miles. Fare $2)-7S' 
Take J., T. & K. W. at Union Depot. 



This is a pleasant city on Lake Monroe. It has per- 
haps 1,000 or 1,200 inhabitants, and is a well-kept, attract- 
ive city. 

The principal hotel which will be open this winter is 
the Wilton House, capable of taking care of 35 guests. Its 
rates are ^2.00 to $3.00 per day. A. Rogers, proprietor. 
Other smaller houses are Comfort Cottage, Sirrene House 

RHOADS & CO., 

, DRUGGISTS 

<s> <s> ♦ <s> ♦ ♦ ♦ 
PICO BLOCK, 

SANFORD, FLA. 



78 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 



The Hotel Wilton. 

SANFORD, FLORIDA. 

Elegantly Furnished. 

Electric Service. 

Artesian Water. 

Cotf. Third St. and Magnolia Ave. 



and Mrs. Toler's boarding house, all of which, while de- 
pending chiefly upon local patronage, make way for a few 
tourists upon occasion. The best drug store is that of 
Rhoades & Co., in the Pico Block. Livery stables near 
depot. 

DeLand. 

Distance from Jacksonville 112 miles. Fare $3.75.. 
Take J., T. & K. W. 



This is an ideal winter residence city. It has the ap- 
pearance of a prosperous Central New York town, which 
it greatly resembles. Before the destruction of the orange 
groves it was possibly the most attractive place in Florida. 
It was embowered, framed in and surrounded by orange 
groves of uncommon thrift and beauty. It is still a town 
of beautiful . homes. It has paved streets, electric lights, 
fine business blocks, and all conveniences of express office, 
money order office, etc. It is the seat of the Stetson Uni- 
versity, a flourishing institution for both sexes, where 
many Northern families place their children during the win- 
ter season. 

There are pleasant excursions to be made from this 
place, of which that to DeLeon Springs is one of the most 



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DEALERS IN 



furniture. Sewing JdachinBs, ^all faper, [arpets 

AND MATTINGS. 



DELAND, _ . . FLORIDA. 



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DeLANl), FLORIDA. 



Next Door to the Coiirt-House. 

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Terms, = = = $1.50 to $3 per Day. 

Mrs. CARLISLE & SISTERS, 



PROPRIETORS. 



TOURISTS AND SETTLERS GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 



79 



delightful. Good hunting for small game in all the sur- 
rounding country. 

The hotels here are much above those usually found 
at inland towns. They rank with the best in the State. 
They are: 



NAME. 


CAPACITY. 


KATES PER DAY. ! PBOPKIETOB. 


College Arms 

Putnam House 

Carrolton 

Chandler 

Floral Grove 

"Waver ly House 


75 
150 
75 
20 
24 
20 


.f 3.50 (t. W. Ripley 
$2.50 to $3.00 M. E. Gould 
.S2.00 to $2.50 G. A. Drake 
$1..50 to $2.00 1 Mrs. Carlisle 

$2.00 1 J. C. Baird 
$8.(:0 per week ; Mrs. Drake 



Of these the Putnam House is in the midst of its own 
orange grove — a grove which is so rapidly putting forth 
after its freezing that it will be quite itself again in a few 
years. The management aims to conduct this house in 
such a manner that the transient tourists will go away with 
pleasant recollections, and the permanent guests will have 
a happy, healthful, jovial winter in Florida's genial clime. 

The Chandler House, situated in the very center of the 
town, next the court house and opposite the Volusia 
County Bank, has not, of late years, enjoyed rhe highest 
reputation. But, in anticipation of the winter's travel, the 
house has been leased to new parties, and has been thor- 
oughly renovated, and under the able charge of Mrs. Car- 
lisle and sisters, has become the favorite house with 
those discriminating judges, the drummers, for whom it is 
admirably situated. 

Besides the hotels there are houses that offer rooms, 
furnished or unfurnished, at reasonable rates. Those who 
wish the former will find a pleasant place in the very center 
of the town where meals and lunches will be served them 
at all hours. This is the Home Restaurant, formerly the 
Royal Cafe. It is conducted by Mesdames Tiffany and 
Hale, who thoroughly know their business. 

Those who prefer the unfurnished rooms will find at 
the establishment of J. F. Allen & Co. a large and com- 



80 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

plete assortment of everything needed for comfort or ele- 
gance, any of which may be rented for use during the sea- 
son at reasonable rates. (See card.) 

Gainesville. 

Distance from Jackson\-ille 71 miles. Fare $2.80. 
Take the J., T. & K. W. via Palatka, or F. C. & P. direct. 



Gainesville, the county seat of Alachua county, is sit- 
uated almost geographically in the center of the State, and 
is one of the healthiest and most attractive cities of Flor- 
ida. It is noted for its beautifully paved streets and good 
roads. The population numbers about 5,000, and fluctu- 
ates but little, as it depends very slightly upon winter 
travel, owing to its lack of large hotels. A disastrous fire, 
which occurred in 1889, destroyed two of the largest, 
which have never been rebuilt, but several small but com- 
fortable hotels and numerous boarding houses supply ac- 
commodations for the tourist or transient visitor. 

Its school advantages are among the best. The East 
Florida Seminary and Military School has its home here, 
and a fine graded and high school offers an excellent free 
education to all. Several prosperous private schools are 
here conducted. Most of the various religious denomina- 
tions have elegant and commodious edifices, and the clergy 
are renowned for their eloquence and zeal. The citizens 
are hospitable and cultured, and are about equally com- 
posed of Northerners and Southerners. New comers are 
welcomed, and find among the various churches and socie- 
ties many social pleasures. A good opera house under 
capable management affords amusements of diverse charac- 
ter and suited to all tastes. 

Occupying an altitude of 173 feet above sea level and 
remote from water courses, the climate is remarkably sal ubri- 
ous, and has a mean temperature of 73°. 



HOTEL PUTNAM 



DeLAND, FLORIDA. 

To those who have been guests of this Hotel we wish to announce that 
the house is again open and in better shape than ever to take care of its 
winter visitors. We earnestly hope that our former patrons will be with U3 
again during the coming winter, and promise to do all in our power to make 
the season as pleasant as have been those in the past. 

It is situated in the midst of a bearing orange grove, the fruit of which 
is entirely at the disposal of the guests. The house is well furnished has, and 
all the appointments of a fli-st-class hotel. Everything is arranged to secure 
the comfort of its guests, and the management promises to conduct it in such 
a manner that the transient tourists will go away with pleasant recollections 
and the permanent guests will have a happy, healthful, jovial winter in Flor- 
ida's genial clime. 



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^IHOME RESTAURANT.l^ 

DeLAND, FLORIDA. 



KlBSdanies TIPPANY & HALE. 

BAKERY \ LUNCHES. 



SODA WATER AND CIGARS. 



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tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 81 

J. G. Nichols. H. F. Button. W. G. Rotoinson. 

H. F. DUTTON & CO., 

:b jv IV k: K li <s 9 

AND DEALERS IN 

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. 

FOREIGN AGENCIES: j H. G. ROBINSON, 

Liverpool and Manchester, Eng. 323 Broad Street, 

Alexandria, Egypt. I PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

J. W. HARSH, 

DRY BOODS ^ SHOES. 

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. 



Mosquitoes are almost unknown, and no objectionable 
features of insect life are met with. 

The city is lighted with gas, and has an abundant sup- 
ply of spring water, which an analysis made in Washing- 
ton, D. C, shows to be almost chemically pure. Conse- 
quently the health of the city is remarkably good.' Many 
pleasant resorts are within easy distance over good roads, 
and excellent teams are always to be had at reasonable 
rates. Oliver Park, two and one-half miles distant, is 
nicely fitted up for picnic parties, with walks, pavilion, 
6 



82 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

bowling alley, swings, etc. The Sink, or Payne's Prairie, 
and Newnan's Lake are each about three and five miles 
away, and offer good fishing and boating. The Devil's 
Mill Hopper is about six miles, and is a natural depression 
of nearly lOO feet, with a circumference at the top of about 
the same diameter, narrowing sharply to a small lake at the 
bottom, fed by innumerable little springs which trickle 
down its sides amidst luxuriant tropical foliage of vines 
and plants. One charm in visiting it to the young couples, 
with whom it is a favorite resort, is that it is almost impos- 
sible to reach it without getting lost among the numerous 
circuitous routes, and that excuse is considered a legitimate 
reason for a too prolonged stay. ' ' Warren's Cave " is another 
great natural curiosity about fifteen miles away, but easily 
reached. Descending a dry^ sink, the mouth of the cavern 
is entered about thirty feet down the side. It is about five 
feet at the entrance, gradually widening to seven, and de- 
scending until about thirty feet from the entrance it takes a 
sudden drop to the level of the bottom of the sink, some 
fifty feet. At the extreme end of this room or widening is 
a circular hole, a few inches in diameter, which lets the 
water out. From this room a gallery extends upward a 
number of feet. In this was found a stake projecting about 
two feet from the surface, having a ring worn just below 
the extended top, as if by a chain. Near this was found a 
skull and other human bones, now in the possession of the 
Museum. Numerous galleries leading off have not been 
explored owing to their narrowness. The whole cavern is 
lined with a wall of limestone, and is evidently a natural 
formation, but that it has been used by human beings at 
some period is shown by the stake and bones. 

Various other attractive excursions can be made to 
points of interest, and during the entire year the different 
railroads offer extremely low rates to excursionists to all 
interesting parts of the State. 

Gainesville is comfortably reached from all portions of 
Florida, and the traveler is met by hacks at all trains. 



I 



FURNISHED ROOMS 

FOR RENT. 



riRS. L. A. THRASHER, 

Cor. East flain and Mechanic Sts., 

-I- Gainesville, Florida. 



JT^TV^eS BELL, 

East Side Public Square, 
Opp. Court House. 



GMINeSV^IL-L-E. F=L-H, 



NATIONAL AND STATE PAPERS, 

LEAMNCit PERIODICALS, NOVELS. 

DIARIES, SCHOOL BOOKS, BASE BALL GOODS. 

Etc., Etc., Etc. 



84 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

At Gainesville is the principal market for the Sea Isl- 
and cotton of the State. It is handled entirely by the firm of 
H. F. Button & Co., who ship it direct to Europe. This firm 
conducts a very heavy business besides in Sea Island cot- 
ton seed, bagging, cotton seed fertilizer, ginning supplies, 
etc., adding much to the life and prosperity of the town. 

There are many large dry goods and other stores. J, 
W. Marsh, a dealer in dry goods and shoes, will be found 
on the square, facing the court house. His house is quite 
complete. 

The best hotel is the Brown House, which has a 
capacity of 75 at $2.50 per day. B. S. Starke, proprietor. 

Giddings & Co. are leading druggists. 

J. O. Andrews, real estate dealer and secretary of the 
Board of Trade, is the proper person to whom to apply for 
information regarding lands, phosphate and business open- 
ings. He is thoroughly informed and thoroughly reliable. 

Fine livery stables are run by W. R. Thomas and by 
W. H. Davis & Co. 

Dr. N. D. Phillips, Dr. Lancaster and the Drs. Mc- 
Instry are any of them skillful physicians of good standing. 

Those wishing reading matter, fine stationery, or other 
supplies, will find all, they can ask at the store of Judge 
James Bell, facing the court house on the square. He has 
the New York daily papers, all the standard periodicals 
and current literature, as well as a fine supply of the latest 
books and popular literature. 

Those desiring more quiet or a little more independ- 
ence than that offered in hotel life may find nicely furnished 
rooms at Mrs. Thrasher's, on the corner of East Maine and 
Mechanic streets. 



OCAL.A 



IF YOU WANT 

or* I^a^r'rxa Ivcunds, 

or* X^eg:etnl:>le IL<ci.n^cl®5 

OR ANY KIMD OF FLORIDA PROPERTY, 

CALL ON OR ADDRESS, 

i. H. LIVINGSTON & SONS. 

Room 9, Marion Block. 

W. H. MAREAN, M. D., 

Homeopathic Physician 
and Surgeon. 



Thirty Years' Practice. 
»^« Twelve Years' Experience with 

1 r^ I C7 ^k o c ^ik c? I n /-* ■ rl £k s^ -#- 4-j^ V^t^^fu^ r% 



Diseases Incident to Florida. 



CHRONIC DISEASES 



Successfully treated by mail. 



Address Lock Box 514, 

OCML-M, F=L-ORIDM. 



86 TOURISTS' AND SETTLERS' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 

Ocala. 

Distance from Jacksonville loi miles. Fare $3.90. 
Take F. C. & P. or J., T. & K. W. at Union Depot. 



Ocala, known as the Brick City, is situated in the center 
of the peninsula, and is the county seat of Marion county. 
It claims 6,000 inhabitants, and is a beautiful, live and pro- 
gressive city, with all modern facilities and conveniences. 

To an invalid seeking health in the gentle climate of 
Florida, and those whose condition, physically, forbids a 
residence near a water course or a sea coast, Ocala is to be 
especially recommended for its high altitude and general 
healthfulness. 

For a business man desiring to engage in lucrative 
business or seeking a safe investment for his capital, this 
city stands second to none in the State for his purposes. 

To a weary business man of the North who wishes to 
leave his business cares behind him and bask for a brief 
season 'neath Florida's sunny skies away from the rush 
and turmoil of larger cities, Ocala offers inducements 
peculiarly her own. Here, surrounded by a spirit of cul- 
ture and refinement, he may rest in quiet contentment, and 
return home after his pleasant sojourn refreshed in mind 
and body, with larger views of humanity and less a sla\e 
to mammon, since he has witnessed how happy and con- 
tented are many of Ocala's inhabitants who live well and 
contented with very little money at their command. 

No better place in the State can be found by those 
wishing to engage in agricultural pursuits than the imme- 
diate vicinity of Ocala. The soil is very productive, easily 
tilled, yielding abundant and diversified crops. All kinds 
of stock thrive splendidly, as well as poultry of every de- 
scription. The price of land is reasonable, and a ready 
market is found in Ocala for every kind of country pro- 
duce. 

This is the center of the phosphate industry, phosphate 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 87 

THE 

riontezuma Hotel, 

HRS. KATE C. BATTY, 
Proprietress. 

H Ocala, Florida. 

OPEN THE YEAR ROUND. 



Rates $2 to $2.50 per day. 
Special rates by the week. 



FREE SAMPLE ROOH 

For Convenience of Commercial Travelers. 



in large abundance having been discovered in this county 
a few years since. This industry alone is an immense 
source of wealth to Marion county, which annually exports 
thousands of tons of this wonderful commodity. 

A plan which bids fair to be realized is in view to erect 
and equip an immense fertilizer factory, with a promised 
capital of $200,000. This plan is to be perfected at an 
early date to prepare the natural phosphate suitable for 
fertilizing purposes, and will increase the wealth of Ocala 
very materially. 

Aside from the fertilizer factory, she has several other 
new enterprises in course of construction, embracing an 
electric street railway, having connection with Silver 
Springs, which will be completed in time for the con- 
venience of the winter tourists. A new brewery, an ice 
factory and a telephone exchange are nearing completion. 



88 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

This enterprising and bustling city is situated loo 
miles directly south of Jacksonville, being midway between 
that city and Tampa. It is but six miles from the beauti- 
ful, far-famed and picturesque Silver Springs, with its nat- 
ural wells, sub-marine forest, ever-changing hued waters, 
and other wonderful attractions, the beauty of which are in- 
describable. It is only twenty miles from the hunter's 
and angler's paradise, Homosassa and Crystal Riv^er. 

There are three railroads entering the city limits, viz.: 
The Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad, the Silver 
Springs, Ocala and Gulf, and the Florida Southern Rail- 
ways, which last is a portion of the Plant System. 

The city has numerous restaurants and hotels. Among 
the latter will be found the Montezuma, which accommo- 
dates lOO guests ; the Central Hotel, the Allred Hotel and 
the Arlington, all of which are under excellent manage- 
ment. 

Among Ocala's other advantages are an accommodat- 
ing bank, the Merchants' National, the Buffum Loan and 
Trust Company, building and loan associations, large 
steam and Chinese laundries, cigar factories, foundry and 
machine works, wagon and carriage factories, saw and 
planing mills, etc. 

The dry goods, clothing and grocery stores are many, 
and have full and varied stocks, and it may be said with 
emphasis that nowhere in Florida can the necessaries of 
life be obtained at more reasonable rates than in this city. 

The price of real estate in Ocala is also very reason- 
able. The most extensive dealer in this line is the agency of 
J. H. Livingston, who can be recommended for his honesty 
and fair dealing. This agency also handles phosphate and 
farming lands, and would doubtless be of great assistance 
to any one who may be interested in the genial and breezy 
climes of Florida. 

Like all live and push-ahead cities, Ocala has a good 
share of newspapers, among them are the Ocala Banner 



tourists' AXD settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 89 

the Baptist Witness and the Marion Free Press, all enjoy- 
ing good circulations. 

All religious denominations are represented in Ocala, 
with handsome structures for places of worship. 

The city's educational advantages are unsurpassed. 
It has an excellent system of public schools, a graded high 
school, a female seminary and a kindergarten, besides sev- 
eral private schools. A business college under competent 
management has also recently been established. 

The public library, comprising three thousand volumes 
of standard works, is an honor to the city and to the State 
as well. In this connection it might be well to mention 
that Ocala is the most noted literary center in the State, 
being the home of Mrs. Beatrice Marean, dramatist, and 
author of " The Tragedies of Oak Hurst," and many other 
works, whose reputation is national. Ocala is also the resi- 
dence of Mrs. General J. A. Dickison, author of " Dick- 
ison and His Men." Besides these distinguished authors 
there are quite a number of other writers who wield facile 
and interesting pens. 

The Public Library and Debating Society compose a 
large membership, and is a source of benefit to its mem- 
bers and the public. This association, as well as the 
Choral Society and Metropolitan Brass Band are truly 
worthy of a larger city. 

For Ocala's protection she is proud to mention the 
names of the Ocala Rifles and the Ocala Fire Department. 
For their respective duties they are well equipped and well 
drilled. Hose Company No. 4 of the fire department at 
present holds the championship of the State 

The social element of Ocala is first-class in every par- 
ticular, there being such an excellent distinction of classes 
as is not often witnessed in a city of its size. 

Both the legal and medical professions are well repre- 
sented. Among the latter Ocala has numerous allopathic 
and one homeopathic physician, Dr. Wm. H. Marean, one 



90 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

of the most prominent and widely-read physicians in the 
South, 

Marti City, the pretty httle suburb of Ocala, with a 
population of 500 people, is composed of the best class of 
Cubans. The inhabitants of this village are engaged in the 
manufacture of cigars and cigarettes. Among the largest 
manufactories, of which there are ten, will be found those 
of Jose Morales & Co. and J. De la Cuesta, whose yearly 
outputs are immense. 

It was near Ocala that the first discovery of phosphate 
in Florida was made. In the digging of a well suspicious- 
looking material was brought to the surface. It was an- 
alyzed, brought to the attention of capitalists, and in three 
months the ten acres around the well had sold for ^68,000, 
This was the beginning of the now famous Dunnellon 
mine. Another owner of a piece of land for which he 
had paid ;$4,ooo sold out for ;^30,ooo. A farmer starving 
on a half-cleared homestead remote from market sold out 
for ^25,000. A real estate dealer in Jacksonville caught 
whispers of what was for some time carefully guarded as a 
secret, plunged boldly in. He cleared a quarter of a mil- 
lion in three weeks. 

To see and find out all about mining of phosphate, 
visit Dunnellon, southwest from Ocala. 

To see river or pebble phosphate, go to Peace River, 
near Arcadia, on the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West 
R'y, 76 miles south of Bartow. 

The whole subject of phosphate is one of wonderful 
interest to the geologist, investor or curious tourist. 

Continuing the tour southward, many thriving little 
towns are passed, but the objective point is 



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tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 91 

Tampa. 

Distance from Jacksonville 212 miles. Fare $8.00. 
Take F. C & P. R'y or J., T. & K. W. at Union Depot. 



Population in 1894, 16,000; in 1895, 21,000. 

On May 25, 1839, Fernando DeSoto sailed into Espiritu 
Santo (Tampa Bay) and landed at what is now known as 
Spanish Park, a place about two miles east of Tampa, on 
the bay. 

About 1832 Indians began threatening the few scat- 
tered settlers in this vicinity. 

In 1835 a government post was established here 
The settlers soon moved in under its protection. 

Through the years of Indian hostilities, ranging al- 
most continuously from 1835 to 1856, this section was one 
of much activity owing to the large number of troops sta- 
tioned here. The government had a line of steamers run- 
ning to New Orleans and another running to Ft. Myers. 

In the fifties Colonel H. L. Hart established a stage 
line from here to Palatka and Jacksonville, the journey 
consuming six or seven days. The same is now made in 
•as many hours. This service continued for about twenty 
years. 

When the Florida Railway and Navigation Company, 
now the Florida Central and Peninsular Railway, was built 
to Cedar Keys, the trip to Jacksonville was made by steamer 
to Cedar Keys, thence by rail. 

In 1884 the South Florida Railway was built into 
Tampa, and in the spring of 1885, through the efforts of 
Gavino Gutierrez, the place was brought to the notice of 
large cigar manufacturers who were contemplating opening 
branch houses in the South. 

On September 26, 1885, Mr. V. M. Ybor came here 
prospecting, and was located way out in the woods, now 
the site of the prosperous Ybor City. The average weekly 
pay-roll of these factories is this year $65,000. 



92 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

Tampa Bay Hotel was begun in 1888 and completed 
early in 1890, when it was opened. 

In 1890 the Florida Central and Peninsular Railway 
was completed to this city 

A large, commodious and spledidly-appointed court 
house, occupying an entire square, was erected in the cen- 
ter of the business portion of the city in 1892. All the 
county officers are located in it. In the city hall, just 
across the street on the south side, can be found the city 
clerk, police and fire department. 

In the city there are three substantial banking institu- 
tions, the First National, Exchange National and the Citi- 
zens' Bank and Trust Company, all of which are located 
on Franklin, the principal street. 

The churches of Tampa are : St. Andrews Episcopal 
Church ; St. Louis (Catholic) ; Presbyterian ; Southern 
Methodist; Congregational; Baptist; Lutheran; Seventh 
Day Adventist, and the Schaarai Zedek Congregational. 

Convent of Mary Immaculate, Mother Superior Theo- 
phile. Located on Twigg street, three blocks east of 
Franklin street. All branches of scholarship are taught^ 
music and languages. 

Newspapers — Tampa Daily Times, a successor of the 
Tribune, established 1 876, consolidated with the Journal 
established 1886; they publish a weekly edition. Office 
corner of Franklin and Washington streets. 

Daily Tnbiine, established in March, 1892; was run 
as daily during winter and weekly during summer. It 
started as a daily last January, and has continued as such. 
They publish a weekly edition also, 

Daily Nezvs, established March 15, 1887. 

Board of Trade — John Trice, President; W. H. Pear- 
son, Secretary. Chartered in February, 1895. They con- 
template erecting an expensive building soon, opposite the 
court house. 

Tampa Rifles — A military organization of forty-two 
members. Captain, Fred W. Krause. 



BAKER ' SEniNARY. 

Florida Avenue. 

TAHPA, = = FLORIDA. 

hoarding and O^H Sf^hDol for Young j-adiBs 

AND SMALL BOYS. 



This School is centrally located in a pleasant part of the city. The course 
of Instruction is complete and under the care of competent instructors. 

The Principal, Mrs. Irene Pennington, has charge of the higher branches: 
History, Literature, Rhetoric, etc 

Miss Nellie Collin, Intermediate Department. 

Miss Esther Wilson, Primary Grade Department. 

Miss Bessie Mills, Kindergarten Department. 

Rev. H. B. Sommeillan, (native of Cuba), Siianish. 

Mrs. Weller, Instrumental and Vocal Music. 

Miss Lottie E. Watkins, Art Department, in which the course is complete. 

FRENCH AND GERMAN ARE ALSO TAUGHT. 

Terms in accordance with course of study pursued. 
For further information apply to Principal. 

MRS. IRENE PENNINGTON, 

TAMPA, FLA. 

FOR GOOD INVESTHENTS SEE 

J. n. FERNANDEZ, 

REAL ESTATE AND LOANS, 

TAMPA, = = FLORIDA. 

PALMETTO * HOTEL, 

TAMPA, FLORIDA. 
R F. WEBB, - - Proprietor. 



Renovated and Refurnislied. 



TWO BLOCKS FROM SOUTH FLORIDA DEPOT. 



Rates, - - $2.00 to $3.00 per Day. 

Special Rates by the Week and to Families. 



94 tourists' AXD settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

Largely owing to its fine location, and very much more 
owing to the far-sighted wisdom and business acumen of 
Mr. H. B. Plant, who early recognized the importance of 
the location, and again owing to the enterprise of her citi- 
zens who reached out inviting hands to capital and enter- 
prise, Tampa is not only a hustling, bustling, wide-awake 
city, but a most attractive, picturesque town. It has fine 
brick blocks, and handsome homes, wide, well-paved streets, 
and when its extreme youth is considered, a surprisingly 
settled and well-established air. 

From all parts of the city a conspicuous object in the 
landscape is an elegant mosque-like building, with silvery 
turrets and towers, each surmounted by a gilded crescent. 
It suggests the Orient and the Moslem. One almost ex- 
pects to see a long-robed Mohammedan step out upon one 
of the tower balconies, and, with face to the east, call the 
faithful to prayer. 

It is a very large and strikingly beautiful building, and 
stands quite out from the city, with no surroundings but its 
own extensive and magnificent grounds. 

This is the famous 

Tampa Bay Hotel. 

This magnificent structure is situated across a small 
arm of the bay from the city, but in full view. It is reached 
from the city by a bridge, but trains stop at Tampa as at a 
station, and then continue around the city and draw up al- 
most at the entrance to the hotels. Indeed, passengers 
alight at the gates entering the grounds. Here in mid- 
winter they walk through choice shrubbery and beds of 
blooming calla lilies to the main entrance, where they pass 
through elaborately carved doors of solid mahogany into 
what might well be mistaken for an art gallery. They 
stand amid groups of statuary, and on either hand are 
paintings of priceless value. Above them is a circular gal- 
lery, which is a picture gallery, where hang gems of the 
world's great painters. Long halls, 700 feet in length, are 



E. M. HENDRY, A. J. KNIGHT. 

HENDRY & KNIGHT, 

Real Estate Dealers. Investors' Agents. Money lenders. 

Rooms I and 2, Knight Block, TAMPA, FLA. 



A word to visitors and probable investoi-s whom we make it our business 
to meet. If you wish to invest in Tampa, or elsewhere in Florida, or if you 
want information concerning investments in Hillsborough, our native coun- 
ty, we claim to be able to furnish it accurately and in detail. You are res- 
pectfullj' invited to our office where you can see the only complete map of 
the city of Tampa, enlarg-ed to 13x16 feet, oil painted. Also other maps and 
charts of interest. In accepting above invitation do not feel that you are 
expected to invest. It is our purpose that every new comer should get facts 
and figures and if possible a favorable impression of our State, county and 
city. 



DR. SANFORD W. ALLEN, 

-^GOLD m PORGELJllfl CROWNS AND BRIDGES. 



Cor. Franklin and Lafayette Sts. _ . ___ . _- • 

Suites I and 3 Campbell Block. TAMPA, FLA. 



C. B. FITCH, 

DEIALEIR IN 

,, Stationery, Scliool Supplies, 

PERIODICALS, JEWELRY. Etc. 

TAMPA, _ - - FLA. 



9G tourists' AXD settlers' guide to FLORIDA, 

hung on either side with costly tapestry and rare pictures, 
and lead past staircases of richly carved mahogany, at the 
foot of which on either side bronze pedestals support life- 
size Moorish figures, true to life in semi-barbaric costume, 
each holding aloft a cluster of electric lights whose term- 
inal branches are crescents. 

The walk down the hall from the office to the dining- 
saloon is perhaps the most remarkable panorama in the en- 
tire place. Certainly no other building in America holds 
anything like it. Other hotels have striking effects in the 
elegant parlors and dining-rooms, over which it is easy to 
be rapturous, but no other hotel, nor any other building 
outside the great exposition art gallery, has ever presented 
such an in-door promenade as this. 

Visitors pass between two Japanese vases six feet high, 
clumps of growing palms in majolica tubs five feet in diam- 
eter. Reclining gnomes guard the portals of the grand 
parlors. On one side a terra-cotta half-relief picture of 
Spanish serenaders; on another, one . of water carriers. 
Carved mahogany chairs of quaintest designs are sand- 
wiched between onyx tables, on one of which stands a 
punch bowl with a scrap of German wassail song on its 
side ; on another, a bowl of cut flowers, a graceful urn of 
finest bronze, or a quaint old clock of ebony and gold. 
Again, here is a grotesque Japanese figure, an elephant 
bearing a howdah of flowers on his back, a huge frog of 
majolica ware, an etching on the wall, a piece of priceless 
tapestry, a tempting tete-a-tete, or a mirror in antique 

frame. 

And this is but a sample of the furnishings of the 

wondrous building. Yet the edifice pales into almost insig- 
nificance when compared with the grounds by which it is 
surrounded. 

No words can adequately describe the beauty and lux- 
ury of this palace, which the Tampa people are proud of 
calling the eighth wonder of the world. It is one of the 
three celebrated Plant hotels, the Seminole at Winter Park, 




Glimpses of Tampa. 



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98 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

and the Inn at Port Tampa, being the other two. All 
must be visited to be understood. 

PLACES OF INTEREST NEAR TAMPA. 

The Consumers' Electric Railway operates a perfect 
system of electric street and suburban railways. They 
have about twenty miles in service, and run their hne with 
both a steam and water power-house. The steam plant is 
located in the city, but the dam and water power-house is 
about six miles from the city up the Hillsborough Rix^er, 
where they have a large head and a fall of about seventeen 
feet. They anticipate moving this plant down the river 
three miles, and expect to increase their power fully eighty 
per cent. 

A ride over any part of the line is a pleasure, but the 
system affords places of special interest. Ballast Point lies 
down the bay about six miles, and is about a thirty minutes' 
ride from the bridge spanning the Hillsborough River. 
At the Point a splendid dancing pavilion, at the water's 
edge, affords much pleasure to frequent parties of young 
people from the city. 

Palmetto Beach, or East Tampa, is a new suburb just 
in its infancy. It is here that one of the most attractive 
and complete cigar factories in this vicinity is located. 
Garcia Guerra's factory is said to be the most tasty in de- 
sign of the structures of this order. Salvador Rodriguez 
has a large factory here also. 

There is a natural park of much beauty at the term- 
inus of the electric railway, and the building of a pavilion 
is contemplated. 

The electric railway connects Tampa, West Tampa, 
Ybor City, East Tampa and Ballast Point, affording great 
convenience to visitors and residents. 

Port Tampa and Picnic Island, located on the South 
Florida Railway about nine miles, are points that the vis- 
itor should not miss. 

At Port Tampa the Plant Investment Company is. 



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TAMPA 

STAR * HOUSE. 



HOUSE FURNISHINi GOODSI-^ 
^•IDRY GOODS and NOTIONS. 



Earthenware, Lamps, Tin, Glass, Wood and Willow 

Ware, Fancy China, Novelties, Dolls, Toys, 

Games, Children's Wagons. 



AGENTS FOR BUTTERICK'S PATTERNS. 



Franklin Street, Next Door to Post Office, 

TAMPA, - - - FLORIDA. 



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100 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

making man-elous improvements in the line of creating 
facilities for shipping; large berths ha\-e been dredged out 
electric elevators are being erected for loading phosphate, 
large quantities of which are shipped from this point. 

It is here that the Inn, a hotel accommodating seventy- 
five, is built three-quarters of a mile from the shore. 
More desirable quarters could not be found. 

The grounds of the Tampa Bay Hotel are under the 
care of a thorough gardener, and should by all means be 
visited. Here one will find the greatest profusion of the 
rarest kind of tropical and semi-tropical plants, flowers and 
trees. The hotel is worth a long journey to see, being one 
of the most elegantly furnished buildings in this country 
and probably unsurpassed in point of variety. 

The " Garrison," where the old government post was 
located, is also of interest. It lies at the foot of Franklin 
street in the southern portion of the town. 

The city is lighted by two electric light plants, and 
will soon have gas also. 

A most efficient fire department and a water works 
system of the highest order keep the rate of insurance 
down. 

Schools — In this county there are ninety white and 
thirteen colored schools, with 4,600 pupils. 

In the city there are thirteen white and three colored 
schools, with about 2,000 pupils. 

A children's home, where little unfortunates are cared 
for, is a most worth)' institution. 

An emergency hospital is another institution deserv- 
ing much credit. 

Both of these institutions owe their existence to the 
efforts of two boards of lady managers. Here, certainly, 
is an opportunity for some philanthropist to help worthy 
causes. 

Parties wishing information can obtain all they desire 
from the following : 

On Real Estate — Beckwith & Henderson, Hendry & 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 101 

Knight, J. M. Fernandez, Salomonson & Fessenden, Hugh 
C. Macfarlane, H. J. Cooper. 

On Trucking and Farming — The Neylan family at 
their place, east of Ybor City about half a mile. 

On Orange Culture — W. R. Fuller, Beckwith & Hen- 
derson, Captain John T. Lesley. 

On Phosphate — Thomas Palmer, T. M. Weir, Hendry 
& Knight. 

On Cigar Industry and General Information — F. A. 
Salomonson, Gaoino Gutierrez, John T. Lesley, W. B. 
Henderson. 

On Municipal Affairs— Perry G. Wall, W. H. Beck- 
with, John C. Teffcott. 

On County Affairs — C. E. Harrison, Charles Wright, 
W. E. Bledsoe. 

On Boating, Sailing, Rowing, Fishing, etc. — Percy 
Culbreath, bridge keeper. 

Tampa Bay Hotel, D. P. Hathaway, manager. Will 
accommodate 600 people. Rates $5.00 per day and up. 

The Inn, Port Tampa, C. G. Logan, manager. Ac- 
commodations for 75. Rates $3.00 and 54.00 per day; 
;^2i.oo and $24,00 per week. 

Almeria, Tampa, corner Franklin and Washington 
streets. Proprietor, H. T. Lykes. Will accommodate 75 
to 100. Rates $2.50 to $4.00 per day ; $15.00 to $17.00 
per wek; $50.00 per month. 

DeSoto Hotel. Proprietors, Lewis & Dunn. Corner 
Zack and Marion streets. Accommodates 100. Rates 
$2.50 to $3.50 per day; special by the week. 

Palmetto Hotel, corner Florida avenue and Polk 
street. R. F. Webb, proprietor. Accommodates 100. 
Rates $2.00 to $3.00 per day; $8.00 to -12.00 per week. 

Plant Hotel, corner Ashley and Madison streets. Pro- 
prietor, J. A. Roberts. Will accommodate 60. Rates 
$1.50 to $2.00 per day ; $7.00 per week. 

Crescent Hotel, Franklin street. Proprietor, Mrs. F. 



102 TOURISTS, AND SETTLERS' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 

B. Jones. Accommodates 200. Rates $2.00 to $2.50 per 
day; ^10.00 per week ; $30.00 per month. 

City Hotel, Ashley street, near Southern Florida de- 
spot. Proprietor, W. A. McCord. Accommodates 40. 
Rates $1.50 to $2.00 per day; $7.00 per week ; $25.00 per 
month. 

Avenue Hotel, on Florida avenue, near Southern Flor- 
ida depot. Accommodates 25, Proprietor, G. Van D. 
Elden. Rates $2.00 per day ; special rates by week or 
month. 

Collins House, Ashley and Whiting streets. Proprie- 
tor, A. B. Wheelock. Accommodates 25. Rates ^1.50 
per day ; $6.00 per week ; $25.00 per month. 

Private Boarding Houses — Mrs. A. H. Carruthers, 
corner Twigg and Pierce streets. Rates $2.00 per day, 
$10.00 per week for one person ; $18.00 for two. 

Mrs. Carew, in the Garrison. Rates 7.00 per week ; 
$30.00 per month for one ; $50.00 for two. 

Mrs. J. A. Loveless, Lafayette street. Rates $5.00 
per week. 

These hotels come in about the order of their impor- 
tance, but here, as elsewhere, it is possible to rent fur- 
nished or unfurnished rooms. If unfurnished, all that is 
needed to put them in the most comfortable and elegant 
order may be procured at the house M. Lovengreen, on 
Franklin .street. This is the oldest furniture house in 
Tampa, and the largest. 

All kinds of earthenware, china, lamps, willow-ware 
and other house-furnishings and notions will be found at 
the Tampa Star House on the same street. 

Stationery, all kinds of reading matter, periodicals, 
etc., will be found at the book store of C. B. Fitch also, on 
Franklin street. He has a full assortment. 

Prominent Physicians — Dr. Jackson, Dr. Stebbins, Dr. 
W. E. Norton, Drs. Lawrence & Abernathy, Drs. Weedon 
& Bird, Drs. Petty & Mathews, Dr. Oppenheimer, Drs. 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 103 

Douglass & Beard. Homeopathic Physicians — Drs. Staf- 
ford, Larner and Bruce. 

Dentists — Dr. S. W. Allen, corner Franklin and La 
Fayette streets, in suites i and 3, in Campbell Block, does 
fine work. 

Orlando. 

Distance from Jacksonville 148 miles. Fare from 
Jacksonville ^4.65. Take J., T. K. & W. at Union Depot. 



Population in September, 1895, 4,000. 

Orlando, the capital of Orange county, Florida, is a 
phenomenal city, situated in the banner county of the Or- 
ange Belt. 

It is built on the culmination of the ridge or plateau of 
the peninsula, between the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of 
Mexico ; and it is a remarkable fact that the water falling 
within the city limits flows in opposite directions — the one 
mto the Atlantic and the other into the Gulf of Mexico. 

It is on the highest elevation in the county, being 
ninety-three feet above Sanford, only twenty-three miles 
distant. 

The water supply is from a deep spring lake, con- 
veyed by a magnificent system of water works, with a 
stand-pipe 125 feet high, with an average pressure of fifty 
pounds to the square inch, the direct pressure from the 
engines in case of fire being 150 pounds. 

There is a well- organized fire company, with proper 
equipments for any emergency. 

The sanitary arrangements are unique and efficacious. 
The health of the city testifies to the purity of the air and 
the water, the average deaths being ten to one thousand 
per year, notwithstanding the influx of many sick people 
and consumptives in the last stages of disease. 

The county seat was established at Orlando in 1856, the 



104 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

court house being built of rough pine logs. In 1873 there 
were but three stores and 1 50 inhabitants. It was then that 
the cowboys, of all ages, or crackers (so called from the skill- 
ful use of the long cowhide whip,) came in companies, 
taking the town by storm, with their whoops and yells, 
riding their ponies and carrying beneath them saddle-bags 
of Spanish gold, a pistol in one hand and a flask of whisky 
in the other. 

The impetus of growth began in 1880, and there are 
now over one hundred two or three-story brick buildings. 

The countryman may not now, as of yore, ride up to 
tJie store, calling for his bacon and grits, his hardware, dry 
goods, tobacco and mail, but must make a tour of the city 
for his purchases. 

There are five dry goods stores, seven groceries, three 
shoe stores, a candy factory, a large hardware and queens- 
ware establishment, two grain stores and four bakeries, 
saying naught of the paint shops, furniture stores and in- 
numerable shops and smaller establishments. 

There is a good brick public school building, with an 
attendance of several hundred pupils, besides there are 
several private schools, a Catholic convent school and a 
flourishing kindergarten. 

There are six handsome churches, and on the Sabbath 
the streets are deserted and the churches full, all the busi- 
ness houses being closed. 

Orlando is accessible on all sides by railroad, and 
holds out to the tourist and home-seeker as much solid 
comfort, pleasure and enterprise as any city of its size in 
the South. 

Leaving Jacksonville, either by way of Sanford or 
Ocala, the ride of six hours is a flitting panorama of flour- 
ishing towns and suburban residences, with their orange 
groves, picturesque windmills, truck gardens, apiaries and 
teeming poultry yards. 

The traveler hardly finds himself in the country before 
he is in town again, so closely do the outskirts of one town 



THE 

SAN JUAN, 



Orlando, Florida. 



WILLIAilS & BEEflAN, 

Proprietors. 



The Largest 

and only Exclusive 



TOURIST HOTEL 



In Orlando. 



First=Class Service. •*• Pleasant Rooms. 

REASONABLE TERHS. 



Rates $3.00 to $4.00 per day. 

Special terms by week or month. 



THE PINES, 



ORLANDO, FLA. 



MRS. OLIVER CARPENTER, 
Proprietress. 



RATES, $1.50 per Day; $8 to $10 per Week, 



106 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

overlap those of another, with perhaps a bit of piney woods, 
a bay head or lake intervening, until the residences nestle 
more closely together, the smoke stacks and spires appear, 
and the conductor announces Orlando. 

There are in and near Orlando thirteen lakes, fed by 
boiling springs and kept pure by brisk outlets; and ever 
and anon may be heard the merry laugh and frolic of her 
sons and daughters as they sport their light craft upon the 
waters. 

The ice factory, water works, planing mills, fertilizer 
companies, wagon factories and other manufacturing estab- 
lishments, serve to keep the revenue at home and give em- 
ployment to many of her people. 

There is a street car line running the length of the 
city, several well-kept livery stables, two national banks, a 
foundry, four hotels and numerous boarding houses. There 
are houses to rent, suites of rooms furnished and unfur- 
nished, so that all may be suited in their domestic and 
culinary arrangements. 

The rate of board is from $15.00 per month up to 
$2.00 and ;$3.oo per day. 

There is the finest brick three-story market house in 
the State, with paved floors and marble slabs, kept, clean 
and sweet ; and it is indeed a treat in midwinter, passing 
down the broad aisle, to see the fine meats, fresh and salt 
water fish, crisp vegetables and flowers that are offered for 
sale. 

The housekeeper, filling her basket there, may pass on 
to the bakeries, and order everything from cooked meats, 
bread and hot rolls down to a lady finger, gathering up a 
dainty and substantial menu, after the daily visits of the 
milk and ice wagons. 

People live in Orlando, and live ivell. They are a 
merry, happy people, dreading no long winters, never hav- 
ing experienced an epidemic, given to hospitality, always 
extending a cordial welcome to the stranger. 



WM. B. JACKSON, Pres. C. R. SWITZER, Vice-Pres. 

J. L. GILES, Cashier. 



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OF ORLANDO, 



Tpansaets a CenePal Banking Business. 



N. Y. Correspondent: Hanover National Bank. 
Jacksonville Correspondent : First National Bank of Florida. 



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ORLANDO, FLA. 



RATES $2.00 AND $2.50 PER DAY. 



MRS. HAZEL-niLES, 

Proprietress. 



P. W. HAZEL. 

Manager. 



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108 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

This is a city of organizations, churches, lodges, lit- 
erary and social clubs, base ball and bicycle clubs. 

There is a fine South Florida Fair building, with ex- 
tensive grounds, a race track and a bicycle track. 

The streets are paved with hard clay and the side- 
walks are of cement. 

Water oaks shade either side of the broad streets, and 
the well-dressed and well-kept people who walk up and 
down do not in any way suggest the freeze. 

The orange trees are not dead ! The people have 
more faith in them than ever, since it has been proven that 
they can stand a freeze. The sunshine and showers of one 
summer have wooed into luxuriant growth long, green 
sprouts that reach almost as high as the old growth, and it 
is confidently believed that next February, the anniversary 
of the freeze, will find the accustomed orange blossom in- 
stead of the icicle. 

The people have lost two whole crops, and they have 
cheerfully retrenched on clothing and luxuries, but there 
has been more to eat, at a lower price, than ever before. 
The coming winter will find the bins and store-houses bet- 
ter filled with home produce than before the freeze, and 
herein we find a blessing in disguise. It has forced upon 
the people the lesson of home production. The winter 
gardens are being planted now ; and when the Ice King 
holds the North in fetters, Orlando and other Florida 
towns will be shipping carloads of ^^^ plant, tomatoes, cu- 
cumbers, new potatoes, peas, snap beans and strawberries. 
It is a daily sight now to see the streets swept by overflow- 
ing loads of sweet-scented hay, and many have been com- 
pelled to pull down their barns and build larger to receive 
their corn, rice, sugar, syrup, pumpkins, sweet potatoes and 
provender. 

The loss of a year of the golden orange has taught 
the people to go to work and keep the golden dollar at 
home. 

The Niagara grape and Japan persimmon culture ha\e 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 109 

been greatly benefited by the freeze, and there is no pleas- 
anter manner of passing an afternoon than driving to the 
extensive Niagara grape vineyards and persimmon groves. 

A deh'ghtful jaunt on the railroad is to Lake Charm, 
where the gentlemanly and enthusiastic florist, Mr. T. L. 
Mead, never tires of displaying his rare plants and mag- 
nificent grounds. He is making a specialty of orchids, 
crotons and palms. 

Mr. Allen, of Pine Castle, four miles off on the South 
Florida Railroad, holds like inducements; and those who 
do not find his roses in bloom, will find at all seasons some- 
thing rare and beautiful. 

The homes in Orlando are luxurious, commodious 
and hospitable. Flowers are extensively culti\'ated, and 
the people live much of their time out of doors or on their 
porches, hammocks being in great requisition the year 
round. 

There are within reach of Orlando many pleasure re- 
sorts. The Atlantic and Gulf coasts attract manj for fish- 
ing and bathing. Clay Spring is a few hours' by carriage 
or railroad, and is a deep, clear boiling spring of sulphur 
water, forming a basin navigable for yachts and small 
steamboats, and it is thither the picnicers and straw- 
riders ofttimes resort by sunlight or moonlight. 

Fort Gatlin, with its fine lakes and trout fishing, its old 
oak trees and wind-tossed gray moss, attracts many to 
spend the day, with well-filled baskets to supplement the 
fish-fry. 

Winter Park, two miles off by rail or carriage road, 
offers the literary and musical entertainments of Rollins 
College, to say naught of the ample facilities for yachting 
and horseback riding. 

Orlando is prepared to suit the tastes of all with her 
schools, churches, hotels, opera house, banks, newspapers 
and social entertainments. 

The leading hotel is the San Juan, kept by Williams & 
Beeman, two ambitious young men. One of them is a 



110 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

nephew of the veteran hotel man, Warren Leland, under 
whose instruction he has been taught to run a hotel. There 
is little doubt about the ability of his master, and none at 
all of the aptitude of the pupil. The San Juan will bear 
inspection and acquaintance. Rates $3.00 to $4.00 per 
day. Capacity 100. 

Another hotel which opens this year under new man- 
agement as an all-the-year-hotel is the Magnolia. Its rates 
are $2.00 to $2.50 per day. It is favorably situated, not far 
from the depot, and but two blocks from the court house. 

A refined, genteel, home-like place, more like a pleas- 
ant private house than a hotel, is "The Pines," on Orange 
avenue, kept by Mrs. Olive Carpenter. Terms S1.50 per 
day or $8.00 per week. 

Those wishing safe advisors on arriving in Orlando 
will find disinterested and candid as well as able advisors, 
in Mr. Mahlon Gore, Mr. J. K. Duke, Curtis & O'Neal, Mr. 
Dixon and Mr. Sperry. 

The best physicians are Dr. Porter, homeopathic, Drs. 
Persons & Harriss, partners in allopathy. 

The most reliable law firm is Massey & Baumgarten. 

Nicholson, the best curio dealer. 

Mr. Gore is the most reliable real estate dealer. 

Best livery stable proprietors, Mennefee & Palmer,, 
opposite San Juan Hotel. 

The best first-class hotel, San Juan. 

The best first-class boarding-house, Mrs. Carpenter's. 

The best druggists. Dr. McElroy and Mr. Lawrence. 

The leading bank, the First National Bank of Orlando,. 
W. B. Jackson, president. 

Winter Park. 

Distance from Jacksonville 144 miles. Fare $4.45. 
Take F. C. & P., or Plant System. 

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of Orange county, on the line of the Southern Division of 
the Plant Railroad System in Florida. Its site was selected 
by its first settlers with especial reference to its healthful- 
ness and beauty as a residence town. In these important 
respects it has always been greatly appreciated by the 
many visitors who have returned season after season to its 
hotels, and by those who occupy its pleasant cottages, 
many of the latter remaining the whole or a greater part 
of the year. 

In point of elevation Winter Park is among the higher 
places in Florida, well open to all the winds that blow and 
free from all unsanitary conditions. It has five good sized 
lakes withi nor partly^ within its borders, but the banks are 
bold, there are no swampy or unsightly margins, and the 
streams connecting the lakes have a swift current, so that 
the waters are always fresh and pure. The lakes, in fact, 
are a frequent resort for pleasure or fishing, and add a very 
important element to the beauty of the town. 

It is not claimed for Winter Park that it is a business 
center, although it has four general stores, two apothecary 
stores, a stationery store, a bakery, livery stable, etc., but 
no saloon. It has two physicians of excellent repute, a 
good dentist and all necessary mechanics. 

The leading hotel in Winter Park, the Seminole, is 
well known throughout the country as second to no other 
in Florida for beauty of location, excellence of management, 
and especially for its success in promoting a home-like con- 
tentment in all its guests, who have a habit of returning sea- 
son after season to its spacious rooms and admirably served 
table. Almost the same things can be said of the Rogers 
House, except as to size. Both hotels command fine views 
of Lake Osceola, and are surrounded by pleasant grounds. 
The Seminole, however, is open only during the usual 
short season from January ist to April ist, while the Rogers 
House receives guests from October to June. Besides these 
there are two first-class boarding houses — that of Mr. D. 



112 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

N. Bachelor, opposite the Seminole, and that of Mrs. Mor- 
ton, in the "Pansy Cottage." 

There are three religious societies in Winter Park — 
the Episcopalian, Congregationalist and Methodist, the 
latter two having settled ministers. 

It is, however, the presence of Rollins College in Win- 
ter Park that bestows upon the town its greatest distinction. 
This institution is now ten years old, and in that time it 
has acquired a fine reputation for thorough work in all its 
departments. It maintains a preparatory school, as it is 
obliged to do for a time in this new country, and does so 
with great success, but its classical, scientific, musical and 
art departments are given greater prominence and ha\'e 
merited high commendation. The college has always at- 
tracted many students from the North and W^est, who find 
it desirable to escape from the inclemency of the colder 
parts of the country. Here they can pursue their studies 
under favorable conditions as to health and lose no time by 
the way. A fine, well-equipped gymnasium building 
secures good physical training, and lawn tennis, boating 
and ball playing are never interrupted by unfavorable 
weather. The college campus contains about twenty acres, 
and is situated on the highest land in town, overlooking 
Lake Virginia. The fees for tuition and the price for board 
at the college are very low, and these and all other particu- 
lars concerning the institution will be given on application 
to Prof J. H. Ford, acting president. 

The public schools — primary and grammar — are ac- 
commodated in a spacious and handsome building, said to 
be the best school-house in the county. The schools are 
taught by excellent, trained teachers, according to the most 
approved methods. 

A pleasant reading-ioom is maintained by the ladies of 
the Christian Temperance Union, who own their building 
and keep the rooms supplied with current papers and maga- 
zines free to all. 

Perhaps one of the best appreciated institutions in 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 113 

Winter Park is the Free Public Library. It contains some 
ten hundred well-selected volumes, to which there are fre- 
quent additions. The college library is also opened to res- 
idents and visitors, and is well supplied with standard and 
reference books. These libraries taken together, and of- 
fered free to all, make it probable that no town of its size 
anywhere is better supplied with good literature than this 
of Winter Park. 

A word may be said about the social life of the town. 
This is just what might be expected in a small community 
made up largely of cultivated people. The literary and 
musical elements are quite prominent. Lectures and con- 
certs are quite frequent, those at the college being access- 
ible to all. The Seminole parlors are open to those who 
enjoy dancing. In these ways and by the cordiality of 
family and friendly intercourse there are always maintained 
the pleasant amenities of a refined social life. 

A year ago much would have been said of the exten- 
sive and well-grown orange groves. Their loss is deeply 
felt, but a few years will restore them, and in the meantime 
the cultivators of the soil are doing much in other direc- 
tions. 

There are many fine residences in and near Winter 
Park, occupied during the winter by well-known people 
from Northern and Western States. Among these may be 
mentioned Rev. Dr. Kedney, of Faribault, Minn.; Mr. F, 
W. Lyman, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Mr. Wm. C. Com- 
stock, of Chicago, III; Mr. James Ronan, of Trenton, N. 
J.; Prof. W. J. Kirkpatrick, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. C. G. 
Zousey, of New York ; Rev. Dr. Ripley, of Buffalo, N. Y.; 
Mr. Gilbert Hart, of Detroit, Mich.; Miss Sparrell, of Bos- 
ton, Mass.; Mr. H. B. Crosby, of Paterson, N. J.; Mr. Geo. 
D. Rand, of Boston, Mass.; Mr. Chauncey Denny, of 
Northfield, Vt.; Mr. J. H. Wyeth, of St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. 
Charles E. Smith, of Boston, Mass.; Mr. Wm. Schultz, of 
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114 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

New Jersey, and Mr. Robert W. Given, of Philadelphia, Pa. 

Orlando, the county seat, five miles south of Winter 
Park, is reached by rail over the Southern Division of the 
Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad, and also over the 
Oviedo Branch of the Florida Central and Peninsular Rail- 
road. Going east, Oviedo and Lake Charm are reached 
through Gabriella and Goldenrod. The drives about the 
country under the pine trees, along the lakes and among 
the orange groves are always pleasant, but will be still 
pleasanter when the roads are clayed or shelled, as the most 
important of them must be at no distant day. 

The streets and sidewalks of Winter Park are perhaps 
better taken care of than those of most other Florida 
towns. This is partly owing to the fact that the town gov- 
ernment takes a proper pride in their good condition and in 
the care of the public parks in the center of the town, and 
partly to the enthusiastic and effective work of the Village 
Improvement Society, which has set out shrubbery and 
hundreds of shade trees, supplementing the work of the 
town and creating a fine public sentiment in fa\or of well- 
kept grounds and streets. 

Taken altogether, the people of Winter Park are quite 
justified in quoting the enthusiastic exclamation of Presi- 
dent Arthur at the time of his visit in 1883, the town being 
then only in the third year of its settlement: " This," said 
he, " is the prettiest spot I have seen in P'lorida." 

For information as to real estate, cottages to rent, 
board, etc., apply to Mr. H. S. Chubb or to Mr. Chas. J. 
Ladd. 

Lake City. 

Distance from Jacksonville 60 miles. Fare $2.40. 
Take the F. C. & P. R'y at Union Depot. 



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Lancaster, in honor of Judge Lancaster, one of the con- 
spicuous characters of early days. It afterwards became 
the county seat for three counties, Bradford, Baker and Su- 
wannee, and changed its name to Alligator. In a few 
years some of its inhabitants objected, when away from 
home, to being introduced as "Alligator, ladies and gentle- 
men," and the name was again changed to Lake City. 
Later, when the counties were differently laid out, Colum- 
bia county was carved from surplus territory, and Lake 
City became its county seat. 

It is one of the prettiest and most prosperous places 
in the State. It is almost surrounded by a series of charm- 
ing lakelets, which give a most pleasing effect to the land- 
scape, and are large enough to afford, besides unlimited 
fishing, \-ery pleasant sport in the way of sailing and row- 
ing. Near by are located valuable phosphate mines This 
is the junction of the Georgia Southern and Florida Rail- 
road, from Macon, Ga. White Sulphur Springs is but a 
few miles from this station. 

The principal attraction and most important feature of 
Lake City is the Florida Agricultural College and Govern- 
ment Experimental Station, which was removed to this 
place in 1884. This is a fine institution, located about 
three-quarters of a mile south of the city. It is supported 
mainly by the government, although the State has made 
some appropriations. It offers a full college curriculum, 
has a faculty of eighteen able professors, and has recently 
opened its doors to both sexes. 

In addition to the usual classical and scientific courses, 
it gives instructions in scientific and practical agriculture, 
and in mechanic arts, practical working in woods and 
metals. A farm connected with the college gives oppor- 
tunity for practical instruction in agriculture. 

Two other experimental stations, one at DeFuniak, in 
West Florida, and one at Fort Myers, in South Florida, 
are under the charge of this central station. This institu- 
tion is the pride of Lake City, and, indeed, of the State. 



116 tourists' AXD settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

The hotels of Lake City are (ew and small. The Cen- 
tral and The Inn are the principal. 

Mr. J. Potsdamer has a livery stable, and furnishes 
turnouts and drivers at reasonable rates. He meets all 
trains with carriages. 

Dr. Appell and Dr. Chalker are able, up-to-date phy- 
sicians. At Hunter's drug store may be found all that an 
invalid can need. 

The country around abounds in quail and other small 
game. 



Live Oak. 

Distance from Jacksonville 82 miles. Fare from Jack- 
sonville $^.2i). Take F. C. & R'y at Union Depot. 



This is a pleasant little town ; important because it is 
the gateway into the State from the west. It is at this 
point that the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad, of 
the Plant System, enters the State. Passengers from Cin- 
cinnati, Louisville and the West may, by this route, pene- 
trate directly to the center or western portion of the penin- 
sula without the detour to Jacksonville as a starting point. 

Live Oak is just now enjoying a pleasant impulse to 
her prosperity in an extensive saw mill, recently erected by 
Dowling & Co., and which is turning out large quantities of 
lumber. An ice factory has also been erected within the 
past few months, and is doing a fine business. 

Six miles from Live Oak, on the Savannah. Florida 
and Western Road, is situated the Lower Suwannee 
Springs, a most picturesque place, where are numerous 
springs noted for their medicinal qualities. A company of 
capitalists from Savannah has recently purchased the en- 
tire property, and have put it in fine condition. 

The Ethel House is the principal hotel of Live Oak, 
and is situated across the street from the depot. 



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Tallahassee. 

Distance from Jacksonville 165 miles. Fare from 
Jacksonville $6.60. Take the F. C. & P. R'y at Union 
Depot. 



This is the State capital, and is a gas-lighted city, with 
street cars and water works. It is on the Florida Central 
and Peninsular Railroad, 165 miles west of Jacksonville, 
and about 200 east of Pensacola. Its site was selected in 
1824 as the capital of the then newly-acquired territory, not 
because of commercial facilities (for there were no railroads 
in those days), but by reason of its central position in the 
then sparsely-settled country, its nearness to the Gulf of 
Mexico, and especially because of the rich lands of the 
surrounding country that would attract settlers. After the 
cession of the Florldas to the United States, and Congress 
had passed an act organizing the Territory, the President 
appointed Wm. P. Duval Governor, and "a council of thir- 
teen of the most fit and decent persons of the Territory," 
in accordance with said act. Previous to these times Gen. 
Andrew Jackson, by virtue of his office as Commandant, 
had acted as Governor, Governor Duval, though, was the 
first civil Governor. The first session of the Territorial 
Council was held in the city of Pensacola, the capital of 
West Florida, in September, 1822; the second session in 
St. Augustine, the capital of E^ast Florida, in June, 1823. 
As the two capitals were about 400 miles apart, it was 
thought better to select a more central position. Accord- 
ingly, at the session'aforesaid it was ordered that the Gov- 
ernor appoint a commission, who should carefully examine 
the topography and resources of some central location, and 
after the commission should make their report the Gov- 
ernor was to issue his proclamation, calling a meeting of 
the legislative council at that point. The commission se- 
lected the present "site in July, 1824. Governor Duval 
issued his proclamation from St. Marks, requiring the legis- 
lative council to assemble on or about the 21st of Decem- 



118 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

ber, 1824, "at a point one-half mile southwest of the Tal- 
lahassee old fields, where it intersected the Ochlochnee 
Trail, in the county of Gadsden." Here the thirteen solons 
of the new Territory assembled in due time in the "capitol 
building," which consisted of a hastily constructed log hut, 
and was located in the southeast corner of what is now the 
Capitol Square. One of their first acts was to incorporate 
and lay ofi" the town of Tallahassee, which embraced only 
160 acres, or one-quarter of a mile square. This act was 
approved by the Governor on the 24th of December, 1824. 
Subsequently at the same session an act was passed organ- 
izing the new county of Leon, and Tallahassee was made 
the county site. 

The location of the seat of government at this point 
showed the wisdom of the selectors. The lands of the sur- 
rounding country were of unparalleled fertility, while the 
absence of swamps and marshes incident to a flat country, 
was a sure token that no deadly malaria prevailed. Soon 
settlers flocked here from all parts of the Union — so much 
so that the desert rejoiced and blossomed as the rose, and in 
less than a couple of decades there was more wealth, cul- 
ture and refinement, and a greater population than in any 
other section of Florida. Here visitors were entertained 
with lavish hospitality, and guests coming from other States 
were astonished at the ease, elegance, and refinement of the 
society of that day. Minds cultiv^ated by travel in 
European lands and stored with knowledge from well- 
selected libraries, coupled with wealth, gave a state 
of society second to no place in the United States. Nor 
was this all. There was a spirit of enterprise and progress- 
ness among these people of the old territorial days. A 
bank (the Central) was soon established, and in the early 
thirties a railroad to St. Marks was projected. This road 
was commenced in 1835 ^1"^ completed in 1837 to its Gulf 
terminus, a distance of twenty-two miles, so that Talla- 
hassee justly claims to have constructed the third railroad 
in the United States. Cotton, which was then the great 



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Resident of Florida 43 Years. | Native Floridian. 

J. T, BERNARD & SON, 

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torance^ Financial Agents, 

TALLAHASSEE, FLA. 



Land Sold, Purchased, Surveyed, Inspected and Mapped. 

Town Sites Laid Out. Legal Business Promptly Attended To. 

TALLAHASSEE, FLA. 

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Open all the Year. 

First-Class in Every Respect. 



SITUATED IN THE VERY CENTRE OF THE TOWN. 



ACCOMMODATES 75 TO 100. 



RATES: 

>2 to $3.50 per Day; $10 to $13.50 per Week. 



G. A. LAMB, Proprietor. 



120 tourists' and SETTLEES' guide to FLORIDA. 

staple product, was brought here from all the surrounding 
country, even from a number of counties in Georgia, while 
regular lines of vessels plied between St. Marks and New 
York and New Orleans. But her energetic citizens were 
not satisfied with a Gulf outlet. After railroads were being 
constructed in Georgia and the sections of country that 
formerly sent its produce to Tallahassee was reached by a 
railroad from Savannah, Tallahassee determined to have an 
Atlantic as well as a Gulf outlet. Accordingly its leading 
citizens succeeded in getting through the Legislature the 
celebrated Internal Improvement act of 1855, which not 
only enabled them to connect with Jacksonville and Fer- 
nandina on the east, and with Pensacola on the west, but 
has contributed more than any other act to develop the re- 
sources of the entire State. So to Tallahassee is our State 
indebted for the numerous railroads that traverse her sur- 
face. Under this act the P. & G. R. R. (now a part of the 
F. C. & P. system) was built in 1857-8 from Tallahassee to 
Lake City, where it connected with the Central to Jackson- 
ville. Subsequently it was extended to the Apalachicola 
River, where it now connects with the railroad to Pen- 
sacola. 

Tallahassee has been truly called the Garden City. 
Beautiful for situation, the joy of its people, it is a floral 
home to its designers, for there is not a house but which 
is embowered with flowers of various hues and varieties. 
These beauties of nature thrive here to perfection, and such 
is the reputation of this section in that respect that it often 
happens that orders are received from distant points^ 
What an opening for a florist ! The good people here do 
not raise for market, but gladly g-ivt' azvay all they can 
spare. Situated on the crests of lofty hills, the view of the 
surrounding country is entrancing. The elevation is about 
200 feet above sea level. From the observatory on the 
capitol, court house or St. James Hotel, on a clear day, 
may sometimes be seen the smoke from the so-called " vol- 
cano " in Jefferson county, forty miles to the southeast. 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 121 

This volcano is a mystery. There are those, intelligent 
persons, too, who thoroughly believe in its existence. For 
a century past, both during the Spanish reign as well as 
our own, fishermen have seen at night a bright light, and 
during the day a dense cloud of smoke. Detonations, too, 
have been heard at different places, but the direction of the 
sound radiating from the same point proves that it is where 
the smoke comes from. Repeated efforts have been made 
to solve this mystery, but an impenetrable morass bars 
progress. A party once succeeded in approaching within 
a few miles. By nailing cleats he succeeded in climbing a 
high tree, and from his position he saw a few miles distant 
a plateau, from the center of which a dense smoke ascends. 
The New York Herald and one or two other publications 
have offered liberal rewards to solve the mystery, but not- 
withstanding the Florida volcano still remains either a myth 
or a reality. 

The rides and scenery in this section are delightful ; 
no sandy roads, but good hard clay, so that one can spin 
along at a rapid rate. Hill and dale, sparkling streams and 
lakes abound. Such a scene of picturesque beauty is well 
worth a visit. 

In the cemetery here are buried Prince Achille Murat 
and his wife, who was a grandniece of General Washing- 
ton. The Prince lived at Fernandina in 1820, subsequently 
removed to this section where he married. Old settlers 
state that the late Emperor Napoleon III. was a guest of 
his cousin, the Prince, for a year, and was known as Cap- 
tain Bonaparte. Prince Murat died in 1845 ^"cl his widow 
in 1857. 

A favorite resort for visitors and picnic parties is the 
celebrated Wakulla Spring, the head of Wakulla River. 
It is sixteen miles south of Tallahassee, and is said to be 
a greater natural curiosity than Silver Spring in Marion 
county, near Ocala. The Wakulla Spring has a depth of 
190 feet, and so clear is the water that a silver 5 -cent piece 
can be easily seen at the bottom. Boats are there to take 



122 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

visitors out ; and on a clear day, as one looks into its trans- 
parent depths he almost feels as if he were suspended in the 
air, and a dizziness comes over him. A favorite amusement 
with visitors is to cast circular pieces of tin, and as they go 
down into the depths beneath all the prismatic colors are 
beautifully reflected. 

A favorite drive in the vicinity of Tallahassee is to 
Live Oak, about two and a half miles north. This was the 
residence in former years of Hon. John Branch, Secretary 
of the Navy during a part of Jackson's administration, and 
the last of the Territorial Governors. Some years since it 
was purchased by a Scottish gentleman, Mr. E. H. Ronalds, 
now deceased, who spent thousands in beautifying it. 
Though the old mansion was destroyed by fire last year, it 
is still a beautiful place. The large spring at the foot of a 
hill which, through a hydraulic ram, supplies water for 
bathing and household purposes, the serpentine paths, the 
fountains, the well-kept lawn and beautiful groves — all con- 
spire to make it an object ol interest to the lover of the 
beautiful and picturesque. 

Five miles northeast of Tallahassee is Ivanhoe, an es- 
tate belonging to another Scottish family. It borders on 
Lake Hall, a beautiful sheet of water. From the rear of 
the mansion a scene of wierd beauty presents itself — so 
much so that it is a favorite resort of tourists, many of 
whom, not satisfied with the view, photograph it, that they 
may have an interesting souvenir. 

So beautiful are the views around Tallahassee, so de- 
lightful the drives, and so balmy the air, that visitors who 
have once been there never fail to repeat their visit. To 
the sportsman the country around is a paradise, for quail 
abound ; while to those who are fond of piscatorial sports 
the lakes have plenty of fish. Lakes Jackson, lamonia 
and Micossukie are from five to ten miles long and from 
a half to four miles wide. Besides these there are a num- 
ber of smaller lakes abounding in fish. If the sportsman 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 123 

prefers a deer hunt, he can be gratified by going some ten 
or fifteen miles south of Tallahassee. 

Lands are cheap and quite fertile, and can be pur- 
chased at from $3.00 to $25.00 per acre, according to loca- 
tion and the nature of the improvements and distance from 
Tallahassee. 

•Leon county is noted for its fine grades of Jersey and 
Alderney cattle, which are eagerly sought for by purchasers 
from East and South Florida. During the year 1894, 50,- 
000 pounds of butter were shipped from this point to 
various places in East and South Florida. Mr. M. H. 
Johnson has a creamery five miles west of Tallahassee, 
and so great is the demand for his cheese that he cannot 
keep up the supply. 

Should the visitor wish to enjoy the Gulf breeze, salt 
water bathing and aquatic sports, he has only to take the 
Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad forty miles to 
Lanark, which lies on the Gulf. Here he will find a large 
and commodious hotel, lighted with gas, and each room 
connected with the office by electric bells. Bath houses 
and boats are for the use of the guests, and those who are 
fond of aquatic sports can be gratified. 

There are two banks in Tallahassee — the First National 
and the Capital City ; one large furniture store (W. D. 
Hart's) which carries the heaviest stock in this section ; one 
opera house, and five white churches, to-wit : Roman 
Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist. 
The State Seminary west of the Suwannee is located here. 
This is officered by a fine corps of teachers, with a college 
curriculum, physiosophical and chemical apparatus and an 
endowment of about $5,000 a year. In consequence of 
this endowment rates of tuition are only nominal. A fine 
brick building, costing about $6,000, is devoted to the pub- 
lic schools. All these are for the whites. The negro, how- 
ever, is not neglected. By their own efforts, assisted by 
the whites, they have their own churches and schools. 
They have five of the former, one Episcopal, two Methodist 



124 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

and two Baptist. Their academy is a fine building, with 
modern school furniture, is officered by seven teachers, all 
colored. Just outside of Tallahassee in the south, on a lofty 
hill, are the buildings of the State Colored Normal and In- 
dustrial College. This institution is presided over by Prof. 
Tucker, of Sierra Leone, Africa. He is doing a noble 
work for his race and for the State. The grounds, build- 
ing, machinery, etc., are worth $75,000 or $100,000, and 
the institution is supported by the State and the United 
States. Many visitors go there and express both surprise 
and gratification. 

At this time there is but one real estate agency, that 
of J. T. Bernard & Son. the former a resident of the State 
for forty-five years, and the latter a native. The son is a 
surveyor, and from his intimate knowledge of localities can 
give the prospector all needed information. This is a re- 
liable firm. 

One of the attractions of Tallahassee is its parks — not 
large ones, as in some of our large cities, but small ones, 
with their fountains and flowers. On McCarthy street, 
which is 200 feet wide, there are four, two of which have 
fountains and a fifth will soon be commenced. 

Nor must we forget the University Library, Tallahas- 
see's chief pride. Ten years ago a library association was 
formed. Ladies were appointed to solicit subscriptions. 
Now the association has 5,000 or more volumes on the 
shelves. On the walls in the hall are portraits of the first 
Territorial delegate to Congress, General Joseph M. Hernan- 
dez, Prince Achille Murat, and Governors Mosely, Brown, 
Walker and Perry. There is also a helmet and visor, supposed 
to have belonged to one of DeSoto's men. It was found in 
Jefferson county nearly fifty years ago. The library was 
initiated by the late ex-Governor D. S. Walker. He 
erected a two-story brick building, and deeded the upper 
portion to the trustees for the use of the library. Recently 
the trustees have received a gift of real and personal prop- 
erty valued at $5,000. 



TOUEISTS' AND SETTLEES' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 125 

The United States Circuit Court House and Postoffice 
building is an imposing structure, costing ;^75,ooo. It is 
quite an ornament to the city. 

There are two hotels, the Leon and St. James. Rates 
fram ^2.50 to $4.00 per day. Boarding houses charge from 
;^3o.oo to ;^5o.oo per month. 

The leading physicians are Dr. George Betton, Dr. 
Guinn and Dr. Philbrick. 



Lanark-by-the-Sea. 

A new railroad has lately been completed from Talla- 
hassee to the Gulf coast, and terminating at Carrabelle, near 
the mouth of the Apalachicola River. Many pleasant little 
towns have sprung up along the route, and it has opened 
an extensive timber region. Along the coast of the Gulf 
of Mexico, thus made accessible, there are many points that 
are ideal summer resorts. These are coming to be known, 
and many are availing themselves of their delights. 

One of these has a history, and that is Lanark-by-the- 
sea. Although for many years Mr. Clarke, of O. N. T. 
spool-cotton fame, has obtained his cotton from Florida, he 
never visited the State until 1894. He was so delighted 
with what he found that he at once invested in land. The 
point that pleased his fancy was a bay with a Venice-like 
curve on tha Gulf coast, but protected from the outer winds 
and waves by a distant, long, low-lying island. Here, on 
rising ground that slopes to the sea, he has already erected 
a fine hotel elegantly furnished with all modern improve- 
ments; a long wharf; a large pavilion built almost over 
the water; bath-houses, and every concei\able arrange- 
ment for the comfort and pleasure of himself, his friends, 
and all other guests. With lo\ing loyalty, it has been 
named after Mr. Clarke's own town in Scotland — Lanark. 



126 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

Panacea Springs. 

Another of these summer resorts, much beloved by the 
favored few who know of its existence, is Panacea Springs. 
For this place take at Tallahassee the same Tallahassee and 
Carrabelle Railroad to a little station called Ashmore. Here, 
in summer, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, a hack 
meets the train and conveys passengers through the woods, a 
distance of six miles, to the springs. Here is a comfortable 
hotel, open all the year round and known as the Panacea 
Springs Hotel, with a capacity for twenty or twenty-five 
guests ; terms, ^i.oo per day, or $5.00 per week. Proprie- 
tor, G. F. Anderson. 

The attractions at this place are fine sea-bathing, that 
maybe indulged in every week in the year; the beach is fine, 
and, as is common along this shore, is shut in from the open 
Gulf by a distant island. The water is shallow and abound- 
ing in fish and oysters. Back of this place, within easy 
walking distance, are ponds or lakelets, where, in summer, 
wild ducks are plentiful ; also, a variety of dark-colored wild 
geese, known locally as negro geese, make it a favorite 
haunt. These are small but edible, and huntsmen call 
shooting them capital sport. 

In winter the wild ducks and all varieties of wild geese 
multiply upon the face of the water, and appear in immense 
quantities. 



Quincy. 

Distance from Jacksonville, 189 miles; fare from Jack- 
sonville, $7.10. Take Plorida Central and Peninsular Rail- 
way from Union Depot. 



This beautiful little town is about twenty-five miles 
west of Tallahassee, and, like that city, lies among the red 
clay hills of Middle Florida. In traveling westward the 
marked change in the appearance of the country is surpris- 
ing and grateful. The level sand of the pine woods, the 



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wet swamps of the low hammocks, the sluggish water 
courses and quiet lakes, give place to high hills of red clay, 
firm and hard, groves of hickory, maple, wild cherry and 
other hard woods, singing brooks dancing down sloping 
hillsides. 

Amid such a country as this nestles the pretty town of 
Ouincy,just now possibly the most lively, wide awake town 
in Florida. 

It was, until a few years ago, a typical old a)ite-bellum 
town, peopled by old, aristocratic, exclusive families, whose 
former slaves, in many instances, remained in their service, 
knowing but little difference, except that they received 
wages in place of the care, shelter and raiment of the olden 
times. 

But little business, apart from the limited local trade, 
was transacted here. The rich soil, the kindly climate, the 
great variety of productions, and the cheapness of land, en- 
abled every householder to be almost self-sustaining, and 
but little ambition was felt to be more. 

But a change has come over the spirit of her dreams. 
Her streets hum with music of traffic and the bustle of trade. 
If one would see the transformation let him try to elbow 
his way through the densely crowded sidewalks on Satur- 
day nights. 

The principal cause of this is the revival of a half-for- 
gotten industry. Tobacco was grown in this section in 
atitc-bcllnm days, but only in the last few years has this in- 
dustry been revived. At the instigation of Mr. H. R. Du- 
val, president of the Florida Central and Peninsular Rail- 
road Company, a number of New York capitalists, headed 
by Mr. George Storm, of the Owl Cigar Manufacturing Com- 
pany, bought up thousands of acres, at a cost of several 
hundred thousands of dollars, and revived this most profit- 
able industry, the success of which has been phenomenal. 

The Owl Cigar Company, of New York and Florida, 
commenced their extensive operations in Gadsden county 
in the year 1887. 







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tourists' and settlers' anum to Florida. 129 

This company owns 1 5 ,000 acres of the best farming land 
in Gadsden county, and they have invested over ;$300,OOO.oo 
in lands, together with the improvements on the same. They 
raise annually about 1,000 acres of tobacco. The output 
at the Quincy factory would represent 8,000,000 cigars per 
annum. On the plantations they have erected 142 tobacco 
barns of the most approved pattern. They have upward of 
150 dwelling houses for the plantation employes, in addi- 
tion to the superintendent's dwellings, stables, cattle sheds, 
etc. They operate eight large plantations, and. in addi- 
tion to their tobacco crop, cultivate about 2,000 acres of 
land each year in corn, oats, sugar-cane, rice, potatoes, peas, 
etc. 

Their headquarters are in the town of Quincy, where 
they have two large cigar factories; one is a brick building 
125 by 124 feet, the other a two-story frame building 90 
by 100 feet. In addition to these buildings, they have two 
large warehouses, one an extensive two-story building 60 
by 80 feet in size, and, the other a brick building of the 
same dimensions. 

Some three years ago an artesian well was sunk on 
their factory lot, and this well furnishes an abundance of 
the finest water in the South. The Owl Cigar Company 
are now supplying water to the town of Quincy, by a spe- 
cial arrangement made with the Quincy Water Works 
Company. 

The Owl Cigar Company have also discovered exten- 
sive mines of Fuller's earth on their plantations, and they 
have erected a large mill, which is fitted up with the most 
complete machinery. They grind and prepare the clay for 
market, and several varieties are shipped each week from 
the Quincy depot. 

The company is keenly alive to the opportunities that 
exist in Florida, and have attracted a large colony of work 
people, who reside in the town of Quincy and its suburbs. 

The country around produces ^11 cereals but wheat, 



130 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

and all fruits of the Western and Middle States — peaches, 
pears, grapes — and all the smaller fruits and berries. 

Great quantities of sea-island aud upland cotton are 
raised in this county. Sugar-cane is very extensively 
grown in this vicinity. From this little town of 1,500 in- 
habitants 5,000 barrels of syrup are shipped yearly as the 
surplus, or product over the demands of the home market. 

In the centre of the town, which has grown up around 
it, is the house of the venerable Judge White. It is a gen- 
uine, typical ante-belhim planter's home — ^a large, roomy 
house of three stories, with wide, high portico, supported 
on immense round, fluted pillars, an overhanging balcony, 
wide hall running through the centre of the house, wide 
doors and large parlors. It is surrounded by ancestral 
oaks that shade extensive grounds. A hedge of Cherokee 
roses, running in wild riot over fence and tree and shrub, 
encloses the whole. A circular carriage road leads to the 
hospitable- looking front portico. 

In sharp contrast are the elegant modern residences of 
Hon. R. H. M. Davidson, Hon. W. H. Davidson, W. M. 
Corry and others. 

There are no prominent real estate firms in this town. 
The country is well settled up with a contented people, who 
do not care to sell their houses or lands. 

Two livery stables do a thriving business — W. C. Wil- 
son and Brackin & Co. 

The m.ost prominent physicians are Dr. Monroe, Dr. 
Scott, Dr. La Mar and Dr. Phillips of the allopathic school, 
and Dr. Kennedy, a successful homeopathist. 

The principal hotel is the Love House, kept by Mrs. 
S. W. Love. It is a house of old and well sustained repu- 
tation, known all along the road to travelers of all degrees. 
Rates, ;^2.oo to ;^2.50 per day. 

Another, recently opened, is the New Quincy, kept by 
Mrs, S. F. Cox. Rates, $2.00 per day; $7.00 per week, 



TOURISTS^ AND SETTLERS' GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 131 

Fernandina. 

Distance from Jacksonville 30 miles. Fare from Jack- 
sonville ^1.50. Take F. C. & P. at Union Depot. 



Fernandina has the largest and deepest harbor on the 
the eastern coast of the State. It is beautifully located in 
a sheltered situation on the west side of Amelia Island, the 
northern extremity of which guards the entrance to Cum- 
berland Sound and the extensive land-locked harbor, into 
which open the St. Mary's River and Amelia River from 
Nassau inlet. 

The city can well be proud of its harbor, it being the 
principal Atlantic terminus of the Florida Central and 
Peninsular Railroad Company, where it has one mile of 
docks and fine phosphate elevator and fertilizer depots, etc. 

The city has nine lumber shipping firms ; is the great 
shipping port for the large phosphate companies ; also for 
cotton, naval stores, fruit and vegetables. It has two oyster 
canneries ; a ;^ 100,000 lumber creosoting plant; one ^^150,- 
000 palmetto fiber company ; four saw and planing mills; a 
large ice factory ; a number of cigar manufactories; a proprie- 
tary medicine factory, and the finest water works in the 
country. It has electric lights, broad, shady and well- 
paved streets. The situation is high, dry and healthy, with 
the Atlantic ocean on the east and the bay on the west. 
There are churches of all creeds, a public library, etc. 

One of the chief attractions of Fernandina is the 
Amelia Beach, extending a distance of over twenty miles. 
The surface of the sand at the edge of the water is as hard 
as a floor, forming a magnificent drive, and a firm, hard 
shell road extends from the city to the beach, a distance of 
nearly two miles. 

Connection is made at Fernandina semi-weekly with 
the elegant steamships of the Mallory line to and from 
New York ; with Sea Island Route steamers to and from 
Savannah, and daily with Cumberland Route to and from 



132 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

Brunswick, Macon, Atlanta, Chattanooga and all points West 
and Northwest. 

A branch track from the city to the beach has been 
completed, and trains during the season run every hour to 
the seashore. 

Eight miles from Fernandina, by water, on Cumber- 
land Island, is the famous estate of Dungeness, bestowed 
by the State of Georgia upon General Nathaniel Greene, 
and belonging for many years to his descendants. Broad 
avenues, bounded by plantations of ancient orange and 
olive trees and lined with giant oaks, stretch grandly away 
on either side of the homestead. The old family burying- 
ground, with its ancient tombs (one of which covers the 
mortal part of the renowned soldier known to fame and the 
history of his country as 'Light-Horse Harry" Lee) is 
located in a ^rove not far from the mansion. 



Key West. 

Distance from Jacksonville 480 miles. Fare from 
Jacksonville IS18.40. Take Plant Line steamers from Port 
Tampa. 



Key West, the county seat of Monroe county, is situ- 
ated on an island, sixty miles from the nearest point on the 
mainland of Florida, and only ninety miles from Havana, 
Cuba. The island embraces two thousand acres of coral 
formation. The city has a population of 25,000, and is one 
of the most important naval stations in the United States. 
The custom house, the building for which cost over ^lOO,- 
000, is second in importance in the South, and transacts a 
revenue business of ;^ii,ooo,ooo per annum, requiring the 
services of fifty employes. The island contains sixteen 
square miles, and has eight miles of street railroad. It has 
gas and electric lights, a modern system of water works, 
a fine city hall and market, costing ^80,000. and all the 
conveniences of a modern city, including live new.spapers. 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 133 

The cigar industry, although somewhat crippled within the 
last two years, is immense, there being at the time of this 
writing over 150 factories in operation in the city, giving 
employment to thousands of Cubans and Americans, and 
doing a business of $3,000,000 per annum. The sponge 
industry alone gives employment to a large number of men. 
The island presents many pleasing features to the tourist, 
and is well worth a visit ; tropical trees and flowers of all kinds 
abound, and the people of the island are remarkably hospi- 
table. A constant breeze from the Atlantic Ocean and the 
proximity of the Gulf Stream render the climate equable and 
delightful. Frost never reaches here. During the winter 
of 1895, when the northern and middle portions of the 
peninsula of Florida suffered from the frost, the lowest tem- 
perature at Key West was 54 degrees. Such a thing as 
artificial heat is unknown here, except for cooking pur- 
poses. The capacious wharves of the city are daily lined 
with vessels of every nation, and the commodities of the 
world find an exchange here. The importance of Key 
West, as one of the greatest commercial centers of the 
country, is assured by its geographical position, and with 
the completion of the Nicaragua Canal it will occupy a 
still more prominent position in the commercial world. 



Madison, Florida. 

Distance from Jacksonville, 1 10 miles; fare from Jack- 
sonville, $A-?,S- 



The town of Madison, which is the county seat of the 
county of Madison, is located upon the Florida Central and 
Peninsular Railroad, fifty-five miles east of Tallahassee, the 
capital of the State. It has about 900 population, thirty 
general stores, one weekly newspaper, a sixty-five-room ho- 
tel, several private boarding-houses, two grist mills, one of 
the finest systems of water works in the State, a well equipped 



134 tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 

volunteer fire department, four churches, and a good school 
that is operated at the public expense eight months in the 
year. Just beyond the city limits of the town is situated 
the plant of the Florida Manufacturing Company, which is 
the largest sea-island cotton ginnery in the world. It furn- 
ishes employment to near loo operatives day and night, for 
six months in the year, and half as many for the remainder 
of the time. 

Madison is the trading centre of the counties of Madi- 
son, Taylor and Lafayette, and the principal market in the 
State for the preparation of sea-island cotton for market. The 
Florida Manufacturing Company prepare large quantities of 
it for manufacture into thread by the famous Coats Thread 
Company. Taylor and Lafayette counties lay to the south of 
the first named and border the Gulf of Mexico, the contig- 
uity of which tempers the weather both winter and summer: 
making the climate a most equable one. Never too hot nor 
too cold for any kind of work to be performed at any sea- 
son. Madison county has high hills, and valleys, and her 
soil contains a good proportion of clay. All are splendid 
for farming, gardening and fruit growing, if reasonable al- 
lowance is made for the varieties of fruits specially adapted 
to each. In Madison pears, peaches and plums do well, 
and the orange can be grown, but is not to any extent. 
Here the pecan nut grows to perfection. Mr. B. F. Mose- 
ley, of Madison, has received an annual return from his 
grove of ^12.00 to ^15.00 a tree. Peaches grow to perfec- 
tion. This county is yet " in the woods," and thousands of 
acres of land can be had almost for a song. Through this 
portion of the State is the finest general farming belt in the 
South, producing the finest staples of both varieties of cot- 
ton, small grains to perfection, vegetables in plenty and at 
all seasons. 

Many of the lands in Madison county are fertile, and im- 
proved to such an extent that but little improvement will be 
necessary to make them as desirable as any one could wish 
in a country home. They arc near schools and churches, so 



tourists' and settlers' guide to FLORIDA. 135 

that these privileges may be enjoyed by all ; are not too far 
from the railroad as to make travel or shipment thereby in- 
convenient, and the country is inhabited by a whole-souled, 
genial and hospitable people, who will always welcome the 
industrious home-seeker, and exercise those civil amenities 
that make intercourse with them pleasant, agreeable and de- 
sirable. 

Madison- county lies between the far-famed Suwannee on 
the east and the Aucilla on the west, is bountifully watered by 
clear, running streams and fresh water lakes, all of which 
teem with the finest fish. The woods, fields and swamp 
lands abound in such game as deer, turkey, squirrel, quail, 
etc. While the Gulf is in easy riding distance, and readily 
yields its abundance of fish to a little labor. Fine sulphur 
springs are also near. 

Any further information regarding farm lands, wild 
lands, phosphate lands, business or residence lots in or near 
town, or in any other class of real estate, may be obtained 
by writing to Mr. A. H. West, of Madison. 




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